Recently, there have been introduced digital tools that allow for a simulation of the growth into architectural design. The research in the past decades have placed geometric design representations almost exclusively into the digital design environment without constraints of traditional materials and their fabrication

In this research it is argued that the generative process driven by growth algorithm could be informed by the behaviour of a material and its production logic. The thesis explores the methodology for the bidirectional approach which links a digitally generated geometry with tectonic articulation. The bidirectional approach is understood as an alternative to the traditional analytical uni-directional approach for the articulation of digital geometry. The proposed methodology therefore takes advantage of form-finding - the behaviour and self-forms of material under stress and links it directly to the generated geometry. The work explores the capacities of laminated wood and its integration into the design in the structural paradigm. The structural scheme is the branching system developed into the complex adaptive system.

A key contribution of this thesis is the use of parametric computation techniques in the convergence of structural scheme of branched structures and sensitive growth. The limits of proliferated geometry and behaviour of laminated timber were achieved.