MIT's Mass Timber Longhouse Shows a Technology-Driven Approach to Sustainable Design
MIT Mass Timber Design, a cross-disciplinary design workshop at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, have developed a building prototype that aims to tackle the world?s growing energy crisis, ?one of the biggest challenges of the 21st century.? Extensively using the wood-based building design and construction technology mass timber - a method growing in popularity within North America - the project utilizes the ?efficiency, speed, precision and versatility? of prefabricated timber construction elements to realize a multi-functional, sustainable building. The longhouse typology, often one of the first permanent structures of a civilization, is a common across the world, but in adapting its construction to face modern-day issues, the team hopes to create a space that ?builds upon this rich cultural icon.?
Courtesy of MIT Mass Timber Design
MIT Mass Timber Design, a cross-disciplinary design workshop at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, have developed a building prototype that aims to tackle the world?s growing energy crisis, ?one of the biggest challenges of the 21st century.? Extensively using the wood-based building design and construction technology mass timber - a method growing in popularity within North America - the project utilizes the ?efficiency, speed, precision and versatility? of prefabricated timber construction elements to realize a multi-functional, sustainable building. The longhouse typology, often one of the first perman...
Courtesy of MIT Mass Timber Design
MIT Mass Timber Design, a cross-disciplinary design workshop at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, have developed a building prototype that aims to tackle the world?s growing energy crisis, ?one of the biggest challenges of the 21st century.? Extensively using the wood-based building design and construction technology mass timber - a method growing in popularity within North America - the project utilizes the ?efficiency, speed, precision and versatility? of prefabricated timber construction elements to realize a multi-functional, sustainable building. The longhouse typology, often one of the first perman...
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