Mass is more: the innovation of mass timber construction
Alberto Zancanella
MBA @BBS | Export manager DACH, China and ASEAN area for DDCHEM
Mass is More is the installation designed by the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia and Bauhaus Earth that brings the innovation of mass timber construction to the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion in Barcelona.?
The project, open to visit from 1st to 9th of October 2022, establishes a dialogue between the industrial modernity of the 20th century and the new low-emission buildings of the 21st century.
Through various interventions, the installation shows how the use of wood and other regenerative materials can help reduce the high CO2 emissions that are associated with the construction industry.
“Mass is More,” a project created by Daniel Ibá?ez and Vicente Guallart of the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) and Alan Organschi of Bauhaus Earth (BE), will be on display until October 9 at the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion in Barcelona. The installation explores the use of regenerative and decarbonizing architectural materials in modern buildings. By reconsidering the materials being used in the original pavilion, this new installation reflects on how to regenerate our cities through the use of low-emission practices in order to achieve the EU’s environmental targets for 2050.
The project has been made possible through grant funding from Built by Nature (BbN), a philanthropic fund dedicated to accelerating the timber building transformation in Europe by radically reducing embodied carbon; safely storing carbon in our buildings for generations; and sequestering carbon by championing forest stewardship and regeneration. Laudes Foundation is the founding partner of Built by Nature.
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“Mass is More” will also host the launch of MASS MADERA, a network of Spanish pioneers in industrialized solid wood construction, including cities, governments, companies, organizations and architects from around the country. This network is being coordinated by IAAC, whose main objective is to promote the development of mass timber construction, and the reduction of CO2 emissions associated with it.
This new pavilion celebrates recent advancements in wood building technology, and also opens during the same week as the Barcelona European Forest City 2022.?
Intends to deepen the discussion on Biocities and new ways of designing and managing urban environments, based on the principles of circular bioeconomy, reflecting on our relationship with our forests and promoting new ways of construction.
Architect, Doctor of Design, CEO at IAAC and Co-Founder at Urbanitree
6 个月Thanks for the kudos on the design Alberto Zancanella, glad to know you like it!
Senior Landscape Architect & Urban Designer
2 年Do we need more study and research to determine how sustainable mass timber construction can be? Will climate change or climate zones impact sustainability? Will we be able to replant, wait for the required growth, faster than what is logged out?
Design Consultancy Firm
2 年The common perception is that wood construction means destroying trees. But to be honest when we do steel, concrete or brick we are emitting More greenhouse gasses. So I propose for every tree plant three or four more trees. Besides wood can be recycled.
Planning & Previously the Research Coordinator - Capacity Support Services at Kwakiutl District Council. Currently on Long Term Disability since January 2019
2 年BC Building Code allows for wood construction of multi unit residential relatively recently eh ??