Kerf Bending Pavilion
Creating a Roof Structure
through Kerf Bending Plywood Sheets Pattern Design
Author: Shang Liu

Pavilion Design(Forest)
Shang ‘s thesis focuses on a special woodcraft technique Kerf Bending, which can make wood panel bendable. The purpose of the thesis is to create an extendable plywood sheet system base on Kerf bending pattern design and joint design. The thesis is developed from the research of the performance of kerf pattern to the optimization of the surface which is composited through plywood tiles. Then the thesis explores the possibility of scale the surface to building scale.
Plywood and Kerf Bending
Kerf Bending Products
Surface Design

Pavilion Design(Field)

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Pavilion Design(City)
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