WoodSkin
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Redefining Wood Possibilities
Rethink your way to design wood. The union between the rigidity of wood and flexibility of textile allowed us to develop a new composite material, perfect for complex and changing projects. Woodskin is a very malleable product that is strong and has a high-end aesthetic. It allows the designer to realize unconventional structures, hard to achieve with the traditional building techniques. Thanks to WoodSkin, wood becomes a tissue, able to be shaped in any form but, at the same time, keeping its structural and aesthetic value intact. This way it is possible to create partially self-sustaining volumes and geometries, without the need for complex and expensive fixing systems. WoodSkin does more than simply adapt to a shape: it’s also able to generate new ones, always keeping its mobilities. The designer, in fact, can at any time change his mind and reshape its work, also during the building phase.
Strength and Durability. The interaction between a high strength textile and its containing material, wood in this case, and the special gluing process, obtained with state of the art materials and machines, make WoodSkin extremely tough, but at the same time manageable and malleable, in other words, stronger and more versatile than the former single materials. This great quality can find its best application for a dynamic use of this product. This system can absorb the structural tension stress, changing its shape, without being damaged in the process.
Freedom of choice. One of the peculiarities of WoodSkin is the possibility to customize this product, under many of its characteristics. WoodSkin is composed of a textile held between two wooden panels. Once glued together, those two surfaces are worked so as
to break the rigid form: like this we can create the different sections that allow this macrostructure to be bent to the desired shape. This process gives us the ability to change the provision, depending on the needs of each project: choosing from different finishings or wood essences, the maker can intervene on the angle of excavation. This translates in the bending angle, in the kind and density of the pattern. Like this we can localize different mechanical characteristics, even on a single sheet of WoodSkin, allowing this material to perfectly adapt to every need the project demands. Furthermore, complexity of shapes can be obtained with materials other than wood, just imagine the great number of materials that can be applied to this system. WoodSkin, like this, is not a simple material, but a way to re-think building systems, giving specific and effectives answers to formal, aesthetic and structural needs.
Where can WoodSkin be used? Woodskin® is available in, modular, sheets or rolls, easy to transport and joinable, so to obtain continuous surfaces, even of large dimensions. The Woodskin system can be used for its high formal and aesthetic value as coating or finishing, easy to be used again in projects with great complexity of shapes. Can also be used for both interior and outdoor designs. Movable and interactive surface, suspended ceilings, or as a bridge element between different shapes. It is also possible to give to the system a proper stability, through bends, folds and few connection points, allowing this to be used as a self-supporting structure that can be used in furniture or interior and outdoor design elements, thanks to the possibility of a a waterproof version.
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