LWA enjoyed the LIVE Toast for AIA Cote Top Ten Awards this afternoon! We are honored to be a recipient for the John W Olver Design Building, UMass Amherst the largest cross-laminated timber academic building in the US. Learn more about the project here: https://www.aia.org/
Adohi Hall; Center for Engineering, Innovation, and Sciences; and Franklin County Justice Center were recognized as finalists, and North Chiller Plant was an honorable mention for the Plan Awards 2020
“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.