About two weeks ago, I visited the Basque country to attend a symposium on wooden heritage structures. The symposium kick-started…
An introduction to the dome
Domes are fascinating structural elements that render a sense of stateliness to the structures they crown. If you spot a…
Saving our heritage structures
Earlier this week, I was talking to a group of my former colleagues and during the course of our conversation,…
Timber Gridshells
As structural forms, shells are not hard to conceptualise since they are commonly found in nature (egg shells, carapaces, sea…
Timber Tectonics
I recently started working on a project involving timber grid shells. Since I have never worked on shells before, I…
My first camping trip
It has been six months since I moved to Finland. As a school-going kid I only knew of Finland as…