Tree-like Columns: Branching Columns Support the Ceiling

A set of branching supports. Columns rise from the ground and begin to branch into three to five thinner diagonal braces in the middle section, continuing to branch upwards, finally forming a continuous net at the ceiling. The cross-section gradually tapers from thick to thin, with no obvious joints. The material is fair-faced concrete or glulam. Several such columns form an artificial forest in the space, with the ceiling between the columns being translucent. Avoid: making columns uniform in thickness from top to bottom, using exposed metal nodes at branching points, making branching angles regularly symmetrical, and having clear joint lines between columns and ceiling.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一組分枝的支撐。柱子從地面升起後在中段開始分岔成三到五根較細的斜撐,再往上繼續分岔,最後在天花處連成一片連續的網;斷面從粗到細是漸變的,沒有明顯的接頭。材料是清水混凝土或膠合木。幾根這樣的柱子在空間裡形成一片人造的林子,柱與柱之間的天花是透光的。避免:把柱子做成上下等粗的圓柱、在分岔處使用外露的金屬節點、讓分枝的角度呈現規則的對稱、讓柱與天花之間有明確的接合線。