Project Details
- Project Name
- Wood Innovation and Design Centre
- Location
- Canada
- Architect
- Michael Green Architecture
- Client/Owner
- University of Northern British Columbia
- Project Types
- Institutional
- Year Completed
- 2014
- Awards
- 2015 AIBC Innovation Award
- Team
- Michael Green, AIBC, FRAIC, AIA, AAA, Lead Design Architect
- Project Status
- Built
Project Description
FROM THE AIBC:
The Wood Innovation Design Centre is, for the moment, the
world's tallest modern all timber structure, a record soon to be broken by
other mass timber buildings in the works. Michael Green Architecture sought to
demonstrate economical, repeatable technologies for building high-rise
structures with timber and was realized as a Design Build with a short schedule
of design and construction over 15 months. Testing of fire, smoke, acoustic and
structural innovations happened in tandem with design and construction leaving
little time to adapt throughout.
