Plastic Design of Bespoke Interlocking Timber-to-Timber Connections for Robotic Assembly

Abstract

CantiBox is a robotically assembled pavilion composed of linear timber elements. The interweaving logic of the structure makes it possible to use exclusively interlocking timber-to-timber connections during the automatic assembly. The design of the connections is based on the static method of limit analysis, which allows adjusting the geometry of each joint according to the internal force distribution.