工程木構專題

Over the past twenty years, as the world’s understanding of climate change has evolved, we have seen the large impact that buildings contribute to the green house gases causing climate change. Concrete and steel have a large carbon footprint and are highly energy intensive materials to produce. Concrete production represents roughly 5% of world CO2 emissions, which reflects more than 5 times the airline industry as a whole. It is clear that the very fundamentals of what we build with are worth re-evaluating. We are in a unique moment in architectural and building engineering history when shifting world needs has asked us to question some of the fundamentals of how we have built for the last century and how we will build in the next? Just as the automobile industry, energy sector, and most other industries will see innovations that challenge the conventions of the way we will live in this century, the building industry must seek innovation in the fundamental materials that we choose to build with. Mass timber is no doubt a major opportunity for systemic change in the building industry. The studio will focus on mass timber as a building material and poses the question: How might we as architects through mass timber start to address these challenges? Mass timber is also far more sustainable than steel or concrete. Trees “sequester” carbon as they grow - trapping 1 ton of CO2 in every cubic meter of timber. In this way, buildings made of timber act as a vault, storing carbon that otherwise would have been released back into the air through decomposition. We all deserve a future of buildings that are smarter, delivered faster, more sustainable, and cost less. By using more timber in the construction of our buildings we can remove increased amounts of carbon from the atmosphere. By producing buildings that act as carbon stores, we can make a significant contribution to carbon reduction and help to mitigate the impact of climate change. I believe mass timber will help make this future a reality. -- Students will learn the fabrication of mass timber products and the benefits of pre-fabrication on a job site, as well as how design-build better utilized building construction process. Students will also learn lifecycle assessment and understand the environmental impact of mass timber products during their entire life cycle. The course will cover following topics: / Life–Cycle Assessment - circularity / end of life scenarios / Reducing carbon intensive materials - frame substitution / reduced foundations / reduced secondary structure and finishes / Strength and Resilience - fire / seismic activity and explosions / Benefits in construction - speed / waste and logistics / health and safety on site / Health and wellbeing / Design flexibility and aesthetics At the completion of this course, students should be able to: / Communicate effectively in written and spoken formats / Acquire and use analytical tools and skills for evaluating information and solving problems / Acquire and use the skills needed for effective teamwork / Explain the sustainable use of human, physical, and economic resources / Recognize and identify historical and contemporary societal and global issues

Corequisite: none

/ Understand mass timber and its potential. Analyze, through case studies, different hybrid system available to confront material constraints. / Evaluate the use of wood components in sustainable pre-fabricated buildings as well as design and engineering challenges that wood can solve. / Discuss the advantages of building with pre-fabricated wood components in terms of speed and efficiency of construction, design flexibility, waste reduction, environmental performance and improved life safety

In general, class participation and assignments throughout the semester will be weighted in the grading process as follows: / Class participation (60%) / Research assignments and presentation (30%) / Final documentation (10%)

• Module 01 (9-weeks) Introduction to Engineered Timber
• Module 02 (7-weeks) Understand of the Industry + Design Exercise

Publications and articles related to various aspects of the course subject matter will be distributed throughout the semester for review and discussion. In addition to these texts, students are also expected to seek out books, journals, and other reference materials pertinent to their individual project throughout the semester. Required readings (essays and excerpts) will be assigned throughout the semester from the following reading list. Recommended Reading List: / Ecological Urban Architecture, Thomas Schropfer / Studies in Tectonic Culture, Kenneth Frampton / Solid Wood, Case Studies in Mass Timber Architecture, Technology and Design, Joseph Mayo / Timber in the City, Design and Construction in Mass Timber, Edited by Andrew Bernheimer / Tall Wood Buildings, Design, Construction and Performance, Michael Green / Mass Timber: Design and Research, Susan Jones / Turning Point in Timber Construction: A New Economy, Ulrich Dangel / The Thinking Hand: Tools and Traditions of the Japanese Carpenter, Mark Mulligan and Yukio Lippit

地點

HA-320

時間

Tuesdays 13:30 - 14:30

聯絡方式

ylhsu@arch.nycu.edu.tw