Tall Mass-Timber Building

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dc.contributor.authorMorales Sabogal, Agni Amramen
dc.contributor.committeechairPiedmont-Palladino, Susan C.en
dc.contributor.committeememberKing, Jonathan Leeen
dc.contributor.committeememberEmmons, Paul F.en
dc.contributor.committeememberFagerstrom, Gustaven
dc.contributor.departmentArchitectureen
dc.date.accessioned2017-07-01T08:01:06Zen
dc.date.available2017-07-01T08:01:06Zen
dc.date.issued2017-06-30en
dc.description.abstractHow can we as design professionals contribute to increase the use of less carbon-intensive materials to build our growing cities? Cities are experiencing a resurgence in population growth and therefore the building industry ought to attend this demand with sustainable solutions. One way of responding to the growing urban population and increase demand for housing as well as to make efficient use of our limited resources is to increase the density in our cities. Since steel and concrete have high material strengths, we currently use either steel, concrete or composites of them to build skyscrapers. Unfortunately, both of these materials have a large carbon footprint. The design community has the challenge to achieve net-zero emissions buildings by the year 2030, and the efforts now should be focused on using less carbon intensive materials, such as timber. While cultures around the world have built with wood for centuries, recent technological innovations, such as Cross Laminated Timber (CLT), is allowing for new applications of wood as the main structural material and the potential to use it for large-scale projects. However, as expected with a new building material some constrains have still to be overcome. For my thesis, I desired to explore this issue through the design of a tall building using mass timber as its main structural material. Engineered timber is here, the future is bright!en
dc.description.degreeMaster of Architectureen
dc.format.mediumETDen
dc.identifier.othervt_gsexam:11822en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/78297en
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectMass-Timberen
dc.subjectCross Laminated Timberen
dc.subjectTall Wooden Structuresen
dc.subjectCo-livingen
dc.titleTall Mass-Timber Buildingen
dc.typeThesisen
thesis.degree.disciplineArchitectureen
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.levelmastersen
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Architectureen

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