“In our office we have a strong green group—because we’re in Boston, we call it the Green Monsters—so there’s great interest. That said, this was very much client driven. The building construction technology school does a lot of testing on wood structures, and they specifically asked if it could be a wood building. We had never done one before, but we embraced it.” Josiah Stevenson
Principal Tom Chung FAIA LEED BD+C and Senior Associate Ashley Rao AIA LEED AP will be presenting on “Timber Tectonics: Structure and Joinery”, showing us how building details in Mass Timber all comes together. Join them on September 25th.
Register here: https://events.archpaper.com/masstimber/
Principal Andrea Leers FAIA will be on the jury for NCTU GIA Competition “Inside-Out : Urban Learning in the Post-Pandemic Era”
Bringing together the previously dispersed departments of Landscape Architecture, Architecture, and Building Technology programs, the new Design Building is a dynamic space of exchange, collaboration, and experiment, celebrating a shared commitment to sustainability.
“By designing a malleable architectural framework that allows for flexibility, using social interaction research and levels as a guide, we can collectively create interior spaces that accommodate many configurations and shared settings, meeting today’s COVID-19 academic challenges and tomorrow’s student needs.” Juliet Chun
Thank you to the golden pin Golden Pin Design Awards 2020, see shortlist.
“A series of sculptural, three-dimensional trusses span the building’s largest space using the material efficiency of a truss geometry while composite CLT panels span between the trusses to provide the necessary support for the enclosed roof garden and its intensive green roof with up to 18 inches of soil and New England snowdrift loading conditions,” Tom Chung said.
Conferred by the AIA Committee on the Environment, the COTE® Top Ten Awards is the industry’s best-known award program for sustainable design excellence. Each year, ten innovative projects are recognized for their integration of design excellence with environmental performance.
The Olver Building exemplifies the University of Massachusetts’ commitment to sustainable and innovative design with its LEED Gold certification and demonstration of emerging wood construction technologies. Bringing together the previously dispersed Departments of Architecture, Building Construction Technology, and Landscape Architecture & Regional Planning, the John W. Olver Design Building fosters multidisciplinary collaboration and expressively integrates building, landscape architecture, and building technology.
Addressing not only operational energy use, but also reducing the embodied energy of the building itself, the Olver building features an innovative use of engineered timber structure. The largest cross-laminated timber (CLT) academic building in the United States, the Olver building demonstrates the sustainability, economy, and beauty of mass timber as a building material and renewable resource.
Learn more about the award-winning sustainable features of the John W. Olver Design Building:
https://www.aia.org/showcases/6280256-john-w-olver-design-building
The DNA Paris Design Awards honors designs in the disciplines of Architecture, Interior design, Landscape Design, Graphic Design and Products design awarding the best designers worldwide. To learn more about the award visit: