Can one of the world’s oldest building materials form
the foundation of a sensor-integrated “smart” neighborhood? Alphabet subsidiary
Sidewalk Labs is making a go of it on the Toronto waterfront and has enlisted
wood advocates and Katerra partner Michael Green Architecture (MGA) to design
flexible, mixed-use timber buildings for its 3-million-square-foot (278,709 square-meter) Quayside project.
If the 12-acre (4.8-hectare) site is developed as
planned, it would become the largest
timber project in the world.
The ground-up development in Quayside is leaning on
mass timber because Sidewalk Labs has touted the material as sustainable and as
tough as steel, as well as because cross-laminated timber (CLT) panels work well in prefabricated
structures. MGA has designed a kit-of-parts that can be used for buildings of
every scale, and Sidewalk Labs is reportedly looking at constructing a
collection of 12 mass
timber towers, with the tallest topping out at 30 stories. [ctbuh]
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