Wood skin

Inside one of the major hotels in Dubai, WOOD-SKIN has been chosen by Engineering Office to become the solution to achieve the tessellated designed of the central column. An element both functional and beautiful with carefully chosen materials and technologies. WOOD-SKIN, here, serves as a complex geometry enabler to easily achieve, thanks to the WOOD-SKIN® proprietary technology and software, what would be a big millwork headache. We delivered a Tailor Made surface that has been finished with the precious Straw marquetry, by Alexander Lamont, an artisanal process that goes in beautiful contrast with the fully computational nature of WOOD-SKIN. The art of forming a decorative panel using flattened slithers of natural cured straw joins... More