Yusuhara Wooden Bridge Museum — overview

Yusuhara Wooden Bridge Museum

Kengo Kuma & Associates, Yusuhara, Japan, 2011

Scale: 1:100
Materials: cardboard, foamcore, wood
Type: structural
Detail: 5/7
Student: Marta Bodak, FS24

A 1:100 study model of the Yusuhara Wooden Bridge Museum by Kengo Kuma & Associates, foregrounding the building's signature stacked-timber structural lattice that fans out from a central column to support a long, gently pitched roof plane. The structural grid is hand-assembled from small wood strips whose layering, cantilever graduation, and cross-member pattern are carefully reproduced, while the roof and ground plane are rendered as smooth foamcore. The model prioritizes legibility of the structural assembly system over enclosure or interior program.

How it's made — RAPLAB

Laser cutter — tutorial ↗
PDF export for laser cutting — tutorial ↗
Digital Workshop ↗
Wood Workshop ↗
Sawing — tutorial ↗
Adhesives — tutorial ↗