call for chapter _ DWD 2018 _ Digital Wood Design

The editorial proposal we intend to undertake concerns the digital representation strategies that can change the future of wooden architectures, by combining tradition and innovation. Call for chapters is aimed to anyone who intends to bring innovation and experience in the wood construction field, related to the advanced digital modeling with a particular attention to the solutions associated with generative models and the dynamic value inherent the relation between knowing how to draw and how to build, a relation that finds in geometry its foundation. Although wood is one of the oldest construction materials, in the recent years many innovations have affected the production techniques and the design tools, and they have paved the way for new formal, aesthetic and structural solutions that can fill the application fields of this material. Lightness and eco-compatibility of features make this material a valuable alternative to materials that have characterized the recent architectural debate, offering the ability to build with sustainable, fully renewable and high-performance materials in energy and structural aspects, capable of complying with architectural solutions of great freedom. Thanks to the potential of computing, parametric design and digital manufacturing are decisively contributing to renew a spinneret which looks forward to driving the future of construction.

Authors are invited to submit their contributions, initially by an abstract, in English, which must contain:

Title and subtitle
Author and affiliate
Themes and keywords (max 5)
Text (min 500 words, max 2000 words)
An image 300 dpi

It is suggested to promote successful experiences, ongoing projects with innovative ideas and ideas in the field of wood construction, advanced digital modeling solutions, original technical/scientific work and innovative applications.

The contributions submitted will be evaluated by a panel of experts and the evaluation criteria will consider both the features of the proposed intervention and the originality of the topic being dealt with.

When the authors of the contribution are more than one, when possible, the contribution of each author will be explicit.

Proposal keywords are:

Wood design
Parametric design and fabrication strategies
CNC and Woodworking Technology
Wood stereotomy and descriptive geometry
Wood joint systems
Flexible wood
Complex Timber Structures
Parametric timber engineering
Large-scale Cross-laminated timber (CLT) projects
Wood complex surface
Discretization of surface
History of representation in wood design
Optimization of wood architectures
Wood and geometry in the history

Send the abstract to digitalwooddesign@gmail.com

The final contribution, following the acceptance of the abstract, will consist of a chapter in english containing:

Title and subtitle
Author and affiliate
Themes and keywords (max 10)
Short abstract (100 words)
Text (min 5000 words, max 12,000 words)
Bibliographical references

Received contributions will be subject to a double-blind peer review both for the acceptance phase of the abstract and for the stage of the final publication. Acceptance may be subject to any changes requested by the reviewers.

DEADLINE

STEP 1

2018/01/05: Abstract submission deadline

2018/01/20: Notice abstract acceptance

2018/04/30: Chapter submission deadline

STEP 2

2018/05/01- 05/15: Double-blind peer review process

2018/05/15 Notice of the review to the authors

STEP 3

2018/06/15: Final contribution submission deadline

2018/06/30: Notice final contribution acceptance