Alex de Rijke's WoodSolutions presentation at Planet Ark's Cities of the Future Seminar.
Alex's bio - From Wikipedia:
Alex de Rijke (born 1960) is an EU architect, timber architecture advocate, educationalist and architectural photographer. De Rijke founded the architecture practice, dRMM, in 1995 with Philip Marsh and Sadie Morgan. De Rijke’s research into, and application of, contemporary materials, technologies and methods of construction have helped make dRMM a globally recognised pioneer and authority in engineered timber design.
De Rijke is an advocate of learning through experiment and making, and has taught at various architecture education institutions, including the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London and Düsseldorf School of Architecture. He was Dean of Architecture at the Royal College of Art from 2011-2015, and simultaneously Professor of the Masters Programme in 2013-15. Although he resigned from teaching to focus on practice, he remains a visiting professor at the Royal College of Art and external examiner to the Architectural Association, Design & Make (Hooke Park) timber M.Arch and MSc. programmes.
De Rijke and dRMM were responsible for the first UK school buildings constructed in cross-laminated timber (CLT), the Kingsdale School Music and Sport buildings 2007.[3] In 2009 de Rijke led a dRMM competition project for a 100m span timber stadium for the London 2012 Olympics. In 2013 de Rijke devised cross-laminated hardwood (Tulipwood CLT) with AHEC (American Hardwood Export Council) and ARUP for dRMM’s London Design Festival project, ‘Endless Stair’. The development of cross-laminated tulipwood was then demonstrated in dRMM's design of Maggie’s Oldham 2017, the first CLT hardwood building in the world. dRMM received the UK's top architecture honour in 2017, the RIBA Stirling Prize, for the design of Hastings Pier, for which de Rijke was the project architect
Module 1 of Alex de Rijke's WoodSolutions presentation at Planet Ark's November 2015 Cities of the Future Seminar introduces the presentation and some of the background behind Alex's work and his firm - London-based architects drmm.
Module 2 of Alex de Rijke's WoodSolutions presentation at Planet Ark's November 2015 Cities of the Future Seminar discusses the role and properties of wood as a building material
Module 3 of Alex de Rijke's WoodSolutions presentation at Planet Ark's November 2015 Cities of the Future Seminar looks at the Naked House project - an experimental CLT construction with minimal waste.
Module 4 of Alex de Rijke's WoodSolutions presentation at Planet Ark's November 2015 Cities of the Future Seminar explores a fascinating project - Kingsdale School - and how building materials can affect the behaviour of students
Module 5 of Alex de Rijke's WoodSolutions presentation at Planet Ark's November 2015 Cities of the Future Seminar looks at the Endless Stair project - and experiment in hardwood cross laminated timber and a design based on Escher's art.
Module 6 of Alex de Rijke's WoodSolutions presentation at Planet Ark's November 2015 Cities of the Future Seminar examines the MK40 Tower - an experimental arts construction in England's Milton Keynes
Module 7 of Alex de Rijke's WoodSolutions presentation at Planet Ark's November 2015 Cities of the Future Seminar describes the design and construction of The Tower of Love - an innovative CLT building on the foreshore at Blackpool
Module 8 of Alex de Rijke's WoodSolutions presentation at Planet Ark's November 2015 Cities of the Future Seminar explores the Tree Towers apartment building and the rationale behind the innovative design.
Module 9 of Alex de Rijke's WoodSolutions presentation at Planet Ark's November 2015 Cities of the Future Seminar looks at a cross laminated timber (CLT) concept for the London Olympic Village
Module 10 of Alex de Rijke's WoodSolutions presentation at Planet Ark's November 2015 Cities of the Future Seminar covers the Battersea Power Station redevelopment and 21 reasons why we should be building in timber.