Computer-aided Design and Construction of Glued Laminated Timber Structure

The paper presents the computer-aided design and construction of a large glued laminated timber structure in Aosta, Italy. The structure was completely computer modelled with in-house developed software, which considers both torsion and curvature constraints of timber. Further proprietary software was used to develop, on a plane, the shape of each timber layer without torsion and curvature . The profiles were converted into CNC instructions to cut the timber leaves. To assemble the leaves on-site a temporary iron scaffolding was constructed. To manage and verify this process, the site manager used the coordinates from the CAD model, converted into the digital format compatible with the