Kide – Wood Program

Kide Blog

Here we post updates as we move through different stages of the project.
Students wearing helmets outside in the snow, with a large part of the timber structure next to a crane.

Full scale structure test

We made a mockup of one of Kide's four trusses at full scale.

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View of a wooden structure in the market square landscape

Aalto University's Wood Program 30th anniversary project to Kuhmo Square

Every year, Aalto University students specialising in wood architecture carry out a Wood Program project. In the 30th anniversary year of the program, the City of Kuhmo is the partner. The project will be a stage and a platform on Kuhmo's main square.

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Students walking around the mockup of the stage layout, made with tape in a parking lot

Refining the plan

To test Kide's shape and size, we mocked up a full scale layout outside.

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Image of various wooden scale models showing snowflake-like structures and fractal geometries

Developing Lumilyhty

How the selected proposal became a more evolved design

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Student presenting stage proposal for Kuhmo city representatives

Stage design competition

Each student designed a proposal for the new stage.

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View of exhibition space showing wooden frames

Wood Program exhibition

Work from our first four months in the Wood Program was exhibited.

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Wood Program students are shown around the Kuhmo Oy sawmill control room

Site visit to Kuhmo

We visited the location of the future stage and got to know Kuhmo.

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Five wooden tripod joints standing on the floor of the engineering department hydraulic lab.

Assignment – Joints

We designed timber joints to be as strong as possible within set dimensions.

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Two hands holding a cube made of 8 smaller timber cubes and spheres.

Assignment – Cubes

An exercise to creatively produce a wooden cube of 200x200x200mm.

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Wood Program students in the forest of Hyytiala Station

Forest station field trip

In Hyytiälä Forest Station we learned more about Finnish forests.

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