Advanced Wooden Joints – Japenese Joinery with a focus on rotation.

The Japanese tradition of wood-to-wood joints makes it possible to create complex knots without additional metal elements.
Such self-locking knots usually work by sliding two precisely fitting elements into each other, which are then connected by means of a small spike or a small board. There are special variants that are not pushed into each other, but are brought into position by rotation.
When folding, one surface is rotated along a joint into a new position in relation to a second surface. As paper cannot be stretched or compressed, precise geometric knowledge is required to do justice to this art form. The modern tools available to us today make it possible to produce a variety of target geometries by folding without having to master this complex prior knowledge directly.
During the course, these self-locking nodes will be analysed and further developed with a focus on folded surface structures. The aim is to join folded structures made of wooden panels in a flat state and then fold them into their final shape and join them there in their geometry in a force-fit manner.