Japanese wood joinery

Researchers have created a novel 3D design application that markedly simplifies the wood joining process.

Before the internet, it would have been hard to imagine that people around the world would one day be unable to get enough of traditional Japanese carpentry, and specifically traditional Japanese joinery.

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a team of researchers from tokyo university has created a software program for designing and fabricating wood joints for frame structures.

The Japanese art of tsugite, or wood joinery, goes back more than a millennium. As still practiced today, it involves no nails, screws, or adhesives at all, yet it can be used to put up whole buildings — as well as to disassemble them with relative ease.

Traditional Japanese architecture’s reliance on wood as a building material developed largely in response to Japan’s humid environment—particularly the warm, wet summer months. Raised floors and open spaces ensured proper ventilation to fight the buildup of toxic mold. Wood post-and-beam construction is also useful when designing for typhoon and earthquake resistance.

What makes Japanese woodworking unique, including tools, techniques, and where you can buy Japanese joinery products yourself!

This week in the MAKE Flickr pool we saw: "POW!" from lookseeseen, "Creeper" from adopt-a-bot, "The Whisker - firefighters gasmask project" from KoeneoK, "corner joint" from davidrockdan, "2nd-order Voltage-Controlled Filter" from johngineer, "Friday Night Drawbot at the Art Jamboree" from Pete Prodoehl, and "Uber Tripedo Rides Again!" from whymcycles.

designed by nicholas préaud + kei atsumi, 'tsuginote tea house' features over 900 3D-printed and double-curved pieces.