You’re invited to “Prefab: Thinking small and more”
a World Wood Day Sydney breakfast seminar from WoodSolutions and Planet Ark
This seminar is your opportunity to discover how new developments are driving new applications for timber products in buildings large and small.
World Wood Day brings together wide-ranging uses of wood and wood products, from cultural and decorative to structural and innovative building systems.
Presentations
Architecture from the Garage
Daiman Otto discusses innovations in the design and prototyping of accessible low cost architecture.
Multi-storey timber building using prefabricated timber panels
Fred Moshiri talks about how new timber products and construction systems, such as prefabricated timber panels, are broadening the application of low rise building processes.
Broadening options for timber in architecture
A discussion by Till Sörensen about realising the options and benefits of timber in architecture, especially in bigger scale projects, and the role of the f+p research and development program.
Program
7.30 Registration
7.45 Sit down breakfast
8.15 Welcome and introduction
8.30 Presentations and Panel Discussion
10.00 Finish
10.05 Walk to nanoHouse for interested guests
Speaker Profiles
Daiman Otto
A graduate of RMIT Architecture in Melbourne and Founder, Analog Structures, Daiman is interested in developing low-cost, accessible DIY architecture. Daiman is Chair of PrefabNZ and is Group Manager of Architecture + Design at Hampton Jones based in Auckland.
Fred Moshiri
An engineer with the Timber Development Association, Fred has a background in timber structural design in Europe, Australia and New Zealand. As well as a Masters degree in timber engineering from Sweden’s Linnaeus University. He recently completed a PhD on the behaviour of timber concrete composite connections and floors.
Till Sörensen
Graduated in 2002 at the University of Applied Sciences in Berlin, Germany as Architect (Dipl.-Eng. Architecture) before moving to Sydney in 2004. Prior to his architectural studies Till was a carpenter where his love of timber started. Since joining Fitzpatrick + Partners in 2010, he has become part of the research and development team within F+P in order to push commercial buildings towards a timber approach.