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Architects: Leers Weinzapfel Associates
- Area: 87500 ft²
- Year: 2017
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Photographs:Albert Vecerka
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Manufacturers: Dri-Design, Kawneer, Nordic Structures
Text description provided by the architects. The Design Building at the University of Massachusetts Amherst is the first Cross Laminated Timber (CLT) academic building in the United States and the largest installation of wood concrete composites in North America. The$52M, 87,500-square-foot project, made possible through supplemental funding from the Massachusetts State Legislature, is a dynamic space of exchange, collaboration, and experiment. Uniting the university’s departments of Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning, and the Building and Construction Technology program under one roof for the first time, the structure itself is a teaching tool for prescient sustainable design.
