Alison Brooks Architects has collaborated with The American Hardwood Export Council

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Architects: Alison Brooks Architects

Location: 16 John Islip St, Westminster, London SW1P 4JU, United Kingdom

Architect In Charge: Alison Brooks

Area: 136.0 m2

Project Year: 2016

Photographs: Alison Brooks, Dav Stuart, Guy Bell

Other Participants : Arup / American Hardwood Export Council

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From the architect. Alison Brooks Architects has collaborated with The American Hardwood Export Council(AHEC), Arup and the London Design Festival to present a cross-laminated tulipwood structure, ?The Smile? at the Chelsea College of Art Rootstein Hopkins Parade Ground from 17 September until 12 October.
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The Smile is one of the Festival?s Landmark Projects, which can be inhabited and explored by the public. The spectacular, curved, tubular timber structure measures 3.5m high, 4.5m wide and 34m long and is effectively a beam curving up at both ends. Showcasing the structural and spatial potential of cross-laminated American tulipwood, Alison Brooks' concept is the first ever ?mega-tube? made with construction-sized panels of hardwood CLT.

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ABOUT CROSS LAMINATED TULIPWOODCross-laminated timber (CLT) is an engineered timber that can be used to make the walls and floors of entire buildings. It has a layered construction with th...