The New Wood Open Architecture (NWOA) Atlas is an ongoing plan that documents projects that explore open form by applying open architecture to principles of wood tectonics, assemblies, joinery and finishes.

?NWOA meaningfully involves the dweller in the ongoing spatial design, building and maintenance of their dwelling,? says the team of researchers. ?Through physical engagement with building with wood, dwellers form a sincere and lasting relationship with their environment, with their home.?
The approach of the NWOA Atlas blends between theory and practice. On one hand, it aims at common ground, the objectively abstract level, and on the other considers the practical relevance, the specificity of a situation and is therefore subjectively concrete. According to the research team, the collected projects show how design processes are experienced in their relationships to the human being, showing continuity in basic principles without excluding individuality.
?The themes and criteria of the analysis sections of built examples are not to be understood as absolute. The descriptions and analyses are partial answers to formulating a better, more humane, more environmentally friendly world, demonstrating crucial interfaces, are intentionally fragmented and require further discussions,? says the team.

The spoke diagram visualizes the openness of each case study by assigning a point along each spindle based on how the design addresses the respective criterion. The inner ring...