Dylan Wood
Dylan Wood is an Assistant Professor of Architecture at the University of Oregon, with a focus on material driven computational design and advanced manufacturing. His teaching and research centers on developing intelligent approaches for utilizing ecological building materials in new forms of architecture and building construction. These methods explore how computational design enables simple, ecological and material effective construction as well as new geometric opportunities and functionalities. In parallel, he is the co-founder of the spin-off company hylo tech and a research fellow at the University of Stuttgart. His doctoral research on self-shaping manufacturing was conducted in collaboration with ETH Zurich and jointly funded by the Swiss Innovation Agency (InnoSussie), the German Federal Environmental foundation (DBU), and GETTYLAB. From 2019-2023 Dylan, led the Material Programming Research Group at the Institute for Computational Design and has worked as a designer and digital fabrication expert at Barkow Leibinger Architects in Berlin and DOSU Studio Architecture in Los Angeles. His research and design contributions at the University of Stuttgart lead to full scale building technology demonstrators including the Urbach Tower, and the recently completed HygroShell, and the Biomimetic Shell at FIT. His interdisciplinary work in design, engineering, science and making has resulted in over 30 peer-reviewed publications and received international recognition.
Research
My Current research investigates additive and fiber informed arrangements in wood components, ultra light timber structures, self-shaping deployable wood modules and light touch robotic solutions for onsite construction. I am an active research collaborator with the Tall Wood Design Institute and the College of Engineering at Oregon State University and part of the NSF Engines – Program: Advancing mass timber technologies.
I am building a new lab at UO and currently looking for undergraduate research assistants to work on upcoming resarch projects and fabrication projects! Interested candidates should email a short CV and summary of their work related to wood materials, digital design and or fabrication.
Projects
Next generation, flat pack, deployable wood building components
Agricultural Research Servvice, USDA - TDI (PI)
Enabling design exploration for curved CLT through coupling parametric modeling and structural engineering analysis
Agricultural Research Servvice, USDA - TDI (Co-PI)
Material Driven Computational Design and Manufacturing for Self-Forming Curved Wood Furniture
FNR -Förderprogramm Nachwachsende Rohstoffe des BMEL (Research Partner)
Self-forming Cylindrical Wood Components for Sustainable Lightweight Structures
Forschungsinitiative Zukunft Bau (BBSR) (Research Partner)
Selected Publications
New
Tahouni, Y., Cheng, T., Lajewski, S., Benz, J. Bonten, C. Wood, D., Menges, A.:2023, Codesign of Biobased Cellulose-Filled Filaments and Mesostructures for 4D Printing Humidity Responsive Smart Structures, 3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing, Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. (http://doi.org/10.1089/3dp.2022.0061)
Sahin, E.S., Cheng, T., Wood, D., Tahouni, Y., Poppinga, S., Thielen, M., Speck, T., Menges, A.: 2023, Cross-Sectional 4D-Printing: Upscaling Self-Shaping Structures with Differentiated Material Properties Inspired by the Large-Flowered Butterwort (Pinguicula grandiflora). Biomimetics, vol. 8, no. 2. (DOI: 10.3390/biomimetics8020233)
Wood, D., Cheng, T., Tahouni, Y., Menges, A.: 2023, Material Programming for Bio-inspired and Bio-based Hygromorphic Building Envelopes, in Wang, J. (eds.), Advanced Materials in Smart Building Skins for Sustainability, Springer Nature Switzerland. (ISBN: 978-3031096945, doi:10.1007/978-3-031-09695-2_4)
Self-shaping wood for manufacturing and construction
Wood, D.: 2021, Material programming for fabrication : integrative computational design for self-shaping curved wood building components in architecture. ICD Research Report No. 6, Universität Stuttgart, Stuttgart. (http://dx.doi.org/10.18419/opus-11968)
Wood, D., Grönquist, P., Bechert, S., Aldinger, L., Riggenbach, D., Lehmann, K., Rüggeberg, M., Burgert, I., Knippers, J., Menges, A.: 2020, From Machine Control to Material Programming: Self-Shaping Wood Manufacturing of a High Performance Curved CLT Structure -- Urbach Tower, in Burry, J., Sabin, J., Sheil, B., Skavara, M. (eds.), Fabricate 2020: Making Resilient Architecture, UCL Press, London, pp. 50-57. (https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv13xpsvw.11)
Grönquist, P., Wood, D., Hassani, M., Wittel, F., Menges, A., Rüggeberg, M.: 2019, Analysis of hygroscopic self-shaping wood at large scale for curved mass timber structures, Science Advances, Vol. 5 No. 9, pp. eaax1311. (doi:10.1126/sciadv.aax1311 )
Wood, D. , Vailati, C., Menges, A., Rüggeberg, M.: 2018, Hygroscopically actuated wood elements for weather responsive and self-forming building parts- Facilitating upscaling and complex shape changes. Construction and Building Materials, Elsevier, March 2018, DOI:10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2017.12.134
Wood, D. , Correa, D., Krieg, O., Menges, A.: 2016, Material computation—4D timber construction: Towards building-scale hygroscopic actuated, self-constructing timber surfaces, International Journal of Architectural Computing (IJAC), Sage, February 2016, DOI: 10.1177/1478077115625522
4D printing and adaptive systems
Cheng, T., Thielen, M., Poppinga, S., Tahouni, Y., Wood, D., Steinberg, T., Menges, A., Speck, T.: 2021, Bio‐Inspired Motion Mechanisms: Computational Design and Material Programming of Self‐Adjusting 4D‐Printed Wearable Systems. Advanced Science, 2100411. (DOI: 10.1002/advs.202100411)
Tahouni, Y., Cheng, T., Wood, D., Sachse, R., Thierer, R., Bischoff, M., Menges, A.: 2020, Self-shaping Curved Folding: a 4D-printing method for fabrication of curved creased origami structures. In Symposium on Computational Fabrication (SCF '20), November 5–6, 2020, Virtual Event, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA. (doi: 10.1145/3424630.3425416)
Giachini, P., Gupta, S., Wang, W., Wood, D., Yunusa, M., Baharlou, E., Sitti, M., Menges, A.: 2020, Additive manufacturing of cellulose-based materials with continuous, multidirectional stiffness gradients, Science Advances, Vol. 6, No. 8. (doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aay0929)
Courses
Materials and Machines - Intermediate Digital Fabrication - Seminar
Performative Wood Morphologies - ARCH 484/5 - Intermediate Studio (winter)
Advanced Timber Manufacturing and Construction - Design Build - Seminar (spring)
MS and Independent Study by consultation