Equivalent Drawings exhibited at The Skyscraper Museum as a part of TALL TIMBER: The Future of Cities in Wood
Universities and Schools of Architecture were important centers for discussion around the issues of the climate crisis, life-cycle analysis, embodied carbon, and the responsibility of the design community to face their role in these problems. The drawings displayed here represent studies on these issues. The earliest are the 2010 transect analyses of building materials and their carbon costs and the proposal for creating Mass Timber housing through a continuous loop of harvesting timber and replanting forests by Alan Organschi, an architect and professor at Yale who headed their research project Timber City. The other drawings are the recent studies of Lindsey Wikstrom which apply a similar analysis of the carbon consumption of a typical suburban-versus-urban lifestyle and the number of trees required to store that carbon. Her panoramic sketch of the “Mass Timber Material Story” pictures steps from production through construction. These drawings are illustrations in Wikstrom’s 2023 book Designing the Forest and Other Mass Timber Futures.
Research within architectural and engineering firms was also important. SOM’s 2013 Timber Tower Research Project is represented here in two pages of a 105-page report. In it the firm’s engineers explored how their expertise in high-rise design could be translated into Mass Timber structures. Their benchmark was based on the Dewitt-Chestnut Apartments, a 42-story building in Chicago constructed in 1966. Their solution was the "Concrete Jointed Timber Frame," which relied on mass timber for the main structural elements with supplementary reinforced concrete at the connecting joints.
Watch Lindsey Wikstrom's presentation on managed forests and Mass Timber in a talk on her book Designing the Forest here.
Research within architectural and engineering firms was also important. SOM’s 2013 Timber Tower Research Project is represented here in two pages of a 105-page report. In it the firm’s engineers explored how their expertise in high-rise design could be translated into Mass Timber structures. Their benchmark was based on the Dewitt-Chestnut Apartments, a 42-story building in Chicago constructed in 1966. Their solution was the "Concrete Jointed Timber Frame," which relied on mass timber for the main structural elements with supplementary reinforced concrete at the connecting joints.
Watch Lindsey Wikstrom's presentation on managed forests and Mass Timber in a talk on her book Designing the Forest here.
Other exhibitors include:
SHoP Architects
Michael Green Architecture
KPF
3XN
Gensler
Sidewalk Labs
Korb + Associates Architects
Waugh Thistleton
LEVER Architecture
Atelier Jones
Kaiser + Path
Perkins + Will
COOKFOX
Arup
SOM
Council of Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat
SHoP Architects
Michael Green Architecture
KPF
3XN
Gensler
Sidewalk Labs
Korb + Associates Architects
Waugh Thistleton
LEVER Architecture
Atelier Jones
Kaiser + Path
Perkins + Will
COOKFOX
Arup
SOM
Council of Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat
Universities and Schools of Architecture were important centers for discussion around the issues of the climate crisis, life-cycle analysis, embodied carbon, and the responsibility of the design community to face their role in these problems. The drawings displayed here represent studies on these issues. The earliest are the 2010 transect analyses of building materials and their carbon costs and the proposal for creating Mass Timber housing through a continuous loop of harvesting timber and replanting forests by Alan Organschi, an architect and professor at Yale who headed their research project Timber City. The other drawings are the recent studies of Lindsey Wikstrom which apply a similar analysis of the carbon consumption of a typical suburban-versus-urban lifestyle and the number of trees required to store that carbon. Her panoramic sketch of the “Mass Timber Material Story” pictures steps from production through construction. These drawings are illustrations in Wikstrom’s 2023 book Designing the Forest and Other Mass Timber Futures.
Research within architectural and engineering firms was also important. SOM’s 2013 Timber Tower Research Project is represented here in two pages of a 105-page report. In it the firm’s engineers explored how their expertise in high-rise design could be translated into Mass Timber structures. Their benchmark was based on the Dewitt-Chestnut Apartments, a 42-story building in Chicago constructed in 1966. Their solution was the "Concrete Jointed Timber Frame," which relied on mass timber for the main structural elements with supplementary reinforced concrete at the connecting joints.
Watch Lindsey Wikstrom's presentation on managed forests and Mass Timber in a talk on her book Designing the Forest here. Other exhibitors include:
SHoP Architects
Michael Green Architecture
KPF
3XN
Gensler
Sidewalk Labs
Korb + Associates Architects
Waugh Thistleton
LEVER Architecture
Atelier Jones
Kaiser + Path
Perkins + Will
COOKFOX
Arup
SOM
Council of Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat