Combining sustainable American tulipwood with innovative methods of modular construction, MultiPly confronts two of the current age’s biggest challenges – the pressing need for housing and the urgency to fight climate change.
An exploration of space and material, designed by Sir David Adjaye in American tulipwood for London Design Festival 2008.
Pioneering the use of hardwood CLT, The Endless Stair is a bold installation in American tulipwood born from a series of collaborations between the London Design Festival and AHEC. Taking inspiration from the drawings of Escher, dRMM and Arup created this extraordinary towering structure.
An installation presented at Biennale Architettura 2018 which encapsulates EMBT’s philosophy of work and their innovative experiments on architecture as fabric, using American red oak and fibre glass thread.
Essay 4 is an architectural project by Mexican practice MANDANA, which took place at an apartment in the trendy Condesa neighbourhood of Mexico City.
At AHEC we strive to influence the way people think about hardwood as a material. We have seen a revolution in timber use and it is creating new opportunities. Many hardwoods have a performance that can’t be ignored, which can provide huge benefits to designers, architects and engineers. This is something we communicate through our own creative projects, capture in our case studies of work from others and demonstrate through examples of use; providing new and exciting references of how American hardwoods are the perfect material in terms of form and function.
If you would like to submit a case study or example of American hardwoods in use, please europe [at] americanhardwood.org (subject: case%20study%20%2F%20example) (get in touch).
Experimental collaborations with creative partners to push the boundaries of what American hardwoods are capable of: structurally, aesthetically and environmentally.
Work from others, demonstrating the performance benefits of American hardwoods around the globe.