AIDIMA R&D FORUM building in Paterna, Valencia. New timber designs.

AIDIMA, an Institute for Wood Research located in Paterna (Valencia, Spain), performs research on types of construction, computational techniques and design of construction processes. It has now commissioned the construction of a new building dedicated to R&D, in which the most recent techniques developed by the Institute will be used.

The building, constructed entirely in timber, has the following characteristics: its geometry is that of an inclined 12 m x 12 m x 12 m cube. Its structure is made of a double skin of timber frames and a double layer of inner and outer glass that covers and protects the wooden structure and isolates the inside environment from the outside.

As a part of the research developed, we present the analysis of a new type of timber joint. Before the construction of the building, an independent structure will be built, the Telon, a spatial free-form structure in order to test the process.