Tumblewood

Node density controls seepage. Node density controls light and air. Node density creates a barrier for wildfire smoke. Multiple node layers create a surface, which sits bending on the Oroville riverbank, ready to roll in. The global shape of the structure defines its performative properties, as the layers, created with coiled wood veneers, are stretched, or compressed depending on their position in the structure. Bark dust and fiber, added externally on and/or in between the wood coils, control the flexible and rigid parts of the structure. Becoming a tumbleweed-like form, the node surface flexes forward when water starts running underneath it; it then becomes a tumble-wood. The tumblewood floats inside the river and stops in wetland areas, creating barriers, and providing protection against mega floods, benefiting the recovery process of the wetland bio-system.