Technology: Integral Mechanical Attachments for Folded Plates of Composite-wood Panels
In certain types of structures, architecture and engineering overlap in a special way. As a system that both defines space and directs loads, folded-plate structures are the result of a synthesis of the two disciplines. In so-called surface-active load-bearing systems several beams that function as slabs or panels were combined as an interdependent system, whereas the connections along the edges play an especially important role.
