From Dezeen,
“London Design Festival 2011: In this movie by the American Hardwood Export Council, architect Amanda Levete of AL_A and London Design Festival director Ben Evans discuss the Timber Wave, a three-storey-high sculpture installed outside the V&A museum in London for the festival”
“This movie by the American Hardwood Export Council shows the manufacture of the Timber Wave by AL_A, a three-storey-high red oak sculpture installed outside the V&A museum for the London Design Festival.
The project is a collaboration between AL_A, The London Design Festival, AHEC and Arup.”
Here is a publication from American Hardwood Export Council,
Also, an article written by Lee Franck (ARUP),
Below are some screen captured images of computational design process, and it is quite interesting process in compare with previous post Driftwood pavilion by AA Unit 2 2009,
“… show how innovation in the modelling and fabrication processes facilitate a link between the realms of formal research and production, with a growing capacity for control over project implementation and materialization, over the optimization of resources, over execution times and over a substantial improvement in building quality. – From Control to design, 2008, Michael Meredith, et. al.”
Found one more interesting movie by ScanLab,



