BOX-LAMINATIONS is a wood lamination + robotics project that uses the properties and affordances of different woods in the digital fabrication process as design and form generators.

This project uses douglas fir, walnut, and oak. To minimize waste the current strategy of creating curves from wood was evaluated and realized that the inefficiencies from the material loss and creation of sawdust were the core concerns.

For the robotic fabrication process to work a curve splitting algorithm was created using machine learning and CV to transform and split the curved surfaces into planar boxes.