The feat at the Segovia Hay Festival was the American Hardwood Export Council’s (AHEC) biggest collaborative project to date.
Architect Fermín González Blanco and his students at IE University used a block building system called Lupo to build two structures from large laminated US tulipwood panels. A total of 336 Lupo components comprising seven repeating shapes were cut out of the panels using a CNC router.
The 1/10 scale structure, standing 3m high and weighing 453kg, was then assembled using wooden dowels to create a replica of a section of the aqueduct.
The mayor of Segovia positioned the final block in place in front of a large crowd.
The blocks were then moved to form a second more permanent structure at the nearby Segovia Design School, along with the 92 original square panels containing the blank spaces where the Lupo blocks had been cut from.
