Wroclaw Summerschool 2019 - The impact house

As one of the 3 houses we developed under the guidance of Martin Wilfinger from the Technische Universität Darmstadt who is part of the team of Prof. Dr. Ulrich Knaack ( more infos here ) and involved in the BAMP project which investigates the use of cardboard and paper as a building material for architecture.

The 3 houses all have to perform individually for a specific case - the first to show is the impact house that has to perform in an impact from a tree falling down on to the house.

The students picked cardboard tubes which seemed to be the best starting point to create a rigid and reliable structure to master an impact from a heavy weight falling down on its structure.

All tubes and nodes are glued together and fixated during the curing process with wood screws and small wooden blocks inside. In principle we believe that the glued connections will survive the impact and the damage that will occur will not let the entire house to collapse.

Later this year we will test these houses in Darmstadt

Here a couple of the pictures from the house and the team that build it