The project is a wooden canopy balanced on tilted wooden column. The challenge here is to find a balance between the need to generate a self-carrying wooden roof structure that can at the same time provide on an overall level the shading necessary to fulfil energetic concerns at different points of the day. These two requirements are interlinked with the positioning of load carrying branching timber columns. A venation algorithms guide the growth of the structure and are informed by an integrated FEA structural simulation that allows for the consideration of the structural as well as the energetic performances within the generative process.