The Weird Wood Index

NOTE: This list is a work in progress that will in time become more whole. I have endeavoured to provide full lists of authors and affiliations where I have them, but assume many have been missed. If you have contributed and aren't noted, send me an email. Similarly, if you have an image of one of the projects to share that I don't have listed, please email these too. Critically, there are countless vernacular and other uses of 'weird wood' that have not been included in this list. At this time I am most interested in newer applications of these tree pieces starting around the 1980s.

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  Hooke Park Prototype House (1986)
  ABK Architects, Buro Happold, Frei Otto @ Hooke Park.
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  Hooke Park Workshop (1989)
  ABK Architects, Buro Happold, Frei Otto @ Hooke Park.
• Westminster Lodge (1997)
  Cullinan Architects, Buro Happold, Frei Otto @ Hooke Park.
• Takasugi-an (2004)
  Terunobu Fujimori
• Pictou Landing Health Centre (2008)
  Richard Kroeker (Small diameter roundwood).
• Embodied Information Free Lab (2010)
  Emanuel Jannasch and students @ Dalhousie School of Architecture. Free Lab
• Harvesting Joints (2013)
  Stephanie Cramer @ Hooke Park.
• Squibb Park Bridge (2013)
  Theodore Zoli (Black locust).
• Bandsawn Bands (2014)
  Ryan Luke Johns, Nicholas Foley @ Greyshed.
• Biomass Boiler House (2014)
  Martin Self, Sattaveesa Sahu, Yingzi Wang @ Hooke Park. (Bent douglas fir stems).
• Processing Branches (2014)
  Christoph Schindler, Martin Tamke, Ali Tabatabai, Martin Bereuter, Hironori Yoshida @ Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts.
• Tree Fork Truss (2015)
  Zachary Mollica, Sahil Shah, Swetha Vegesana, Martin Self, Jack Draper, Vivian Yang, Mohaimeen Islam @ Hooke Park.
• Log Knot (2018)
  Sasa Zivkovic, Brian Havener, Christopher A. Battaglia @ Cornell / HANNAH Office.
• LIMB (2018)
  Peter Von Buelow, Omid Oliyan Torghabehi, Steven Mankouche, Kasey Vliet @ University of Michigan.
• Vierendeel Fork Truss (2019)
  Maxence Grangeot @ EPFL.
• Ground to Crown Bridge (2019)
  Patrick Birch @ Hooke Park.
• Woodland Cabin (2019)
  Wyatt Armstrong, Hilla Gordon, Ciro Romer, Nasia Pantelidou, Shengning Zhang @ Hooke Park.
• Woodwose (2019)
  Jean-Nicolas Dackiw et al @ IAAC.
• Robotically-Fabricated Nexorades from Whole Timber (2020)
  Aryan Rezaei Rad and others @ EPFL.
• Densely-packed Timber Blocks (2020)
  Sebastien Birch @ Hooke Park.
• Chainsaw Chair (2020)
  Jean-Nicolas Dackiw, Zachary Mollica, Carolina de Menezes @ Hooke Park. (Ash tri fork).
• Tangential Timber (2021)
  Katie MacDonald, Kyle Schumann @ Before Building Lab.
• Ashen Cabin (2021)
  Leslie Lok, Sas Zivkovic @ Cornell / HANNAH Office. Using ash damaged by emerald ash.
• Stud-A (2021)
  Georgina Bowman, Jacopo Silvestri, Sirisha Munnangi, Weikun Xu @ Hooke Park.
• Forest Tendril // Liminal Canopy (2021)
  Noah Thaddeus, Jacobo Zendejas @ Hooke Park.
• Ash Ouroboros (2021)
  Daniel Swarovski @ Hooke Park.
• RawLam (2021)
  Thomas Svilans @ Royal Danish Academy.
• Field Station (2022)
  Romain Odin-Lepoutre, Garrett Nelli, Lin Yao, Zhu Yulin, Duan Chongyuan, Arangil Karuvadath Malavika, Zhang Zhijiao, Zhong Xiaojing, Liu Ting, Cai Hanxing @ Hooke Park.
• Y-Shaped Nodes (2022)
  Caitlin Mueller @ MIT. (Tree Forks).
• Inventory (2022)
  Gil Sunshine @ MIT. Thesis project
• Horse Island Research Station (2022)
  Alan Organchi @ Yale Building Lab.
• Pikku-Finlandia (2022)
  Jaakko Torvinen, Elli Wendelin, Havu Jarvela, Architects NRT, Pekka Heikkinen (Conifers with branches).
• Natural Junk (2023)
  Niko Fabricius @ Aalto University.
• Tree and the Truss (2023)
  Miguel Cornejo, Yungang Chen, James Dent, Rafael Ferres, Maisie Hoile, Guixin Lin, Joaquin Iragorri, Snigdha Pinisetti, Yiting Sun, Yifan Wang, Yiling Zhou, Wyatt Armstrong @ Hooke Park.
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  Wild Wood Gridshell (2023)
  Tim Cousin, Christopher B. Dewart, Latifa Alkhayat, Caitlin Mueller, Natalie Pearl @ MIT.
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  Bricolage Chair (2023)
  Tim Cousin @ MIT.
• Children's Forest Pavilion (2023)
  @ Neringa Forest Architecture.
• Growing Bridge (2023)
  @ RWTH.
• Natural Tree Fork Tower Structure (2023)
  Hua Chai, Xinjie Zhou, Xiaofan Gao, Qinhui Yang, Philip F. Yuan @ Tongji University.
• Koueno Bench (2023)
  Lucas Hosteing @ University of Art and Design Lausanne. Furniture
• Surfacing Roundwood (2023)
  Kyle Schumann, Katie MacDonald, Danelle Briscoe @ University of Texas. (Irregular roundwood).
• What the Harvester Leaves Behind (2023)
  Samantha Tam @ University of Toronto. (Conifers).
• Building with Misfit Wood (2024)
  Jaakko Torvinen @ Aalto University. (Irregular roundwood).
• Sheets and Slabs (2024)
  Kyle Schumann, Katie MacDonald @ Before Building Lab.
• Inverting the Unwanted (2024)
  Zhenxiao Yang @ Daniels.
• Y Shelter (2024)
  Billy Pengelly @ New Zealand. Thesis project
• Branch Production (2024)
  Wyatt Armstrong @ ROB|ARCH 2024.
• Curved Oak Lamella Prototype (2020)
  Niels Martin Larsen & Anders Kruse Aagaard @ Aarhus School of Architecture.
• Curved Oak Lamella (2022)
  Niels Martin Larsen, Anders Kruse Aagaard, Markus Hudert, Lasse Weyergang Rahbek @ Aarhus School of Architecture.
• (2020)
  Petras Vestartas, Yves Weinand @ IAAC. Small roundwood
• Coppice Oratory (2023)
  ADD @ Format Engineers, Tchonova + La Roi Architecture.