This square building was designed by Elies Regent in neo-Gothic style. From thi lodge the reservoir keeper controlled water levels and managed the opening and closing of the dam gates.
This building has been restored as ,faithfully as possible to the original.
At present the ground floor hosts an exhibition of the reservoir’s history and environs, and the upper floor contains infrastructure for social purposes.
Re-imagining the Keeper’s Lodge
This semester we will reconsider the Keeper’s Lodge as a timber structure. The existing Lodge will be converted to a timber frame structure and a new free-form lattice will create an expanded covered area around it.
We will physically prototype a section of this new proposal at a 1:2 scale, addressing all of the challenges that come with resolving complex timb.er structures. We will use the 3 different blank types and confront the problem of fabricating joints within specific production limitations (i.e. a 3-axis CNC machine
BLANKS:
For curved timber elements, we look at 3 different methods of forming the glulam blank. All use glue-lamination in a different way:
- Bending thin lamellas over a formwork.
- Cutting overlapping segments with alignment pins.
- Bending thin lamellas with alignment pins.
Bending thin lamellas over a formwork
PROCESS AND ASSEMBLY
