Experimental bench praised by national wood council

A project co-led by a professor at the School of Architecture at the University of Waterloo was honoured recently at an awards event sponsored by the Canadian Wood Council.

Wander Wood, an experimental wooden structure installed last fall on the campus of the University of British Columbia, took the Jury’s Choice award, drawing high praise for invoking movement, detail and texture.

David Correa and a team of about three dozen architecture students and industry partners completed the project, an elaborate bench made with state-of-the-art robotic tools, during a five-day workshop on robotic timber fabrication.

Correa has been involved in the construction of similar structures using advanced fabrication methods for several years.