{"id":3904,"date":"2023-05-23T06:10:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-23T06:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/woodcentral.com.au\/?p=3904"},"modified":"2024-10-21T20:31:13","modified_gmt":"2024-10-21T10:31:13","slug":"the-met-revolution-begins-in-se-asia-starting-with-ntu-singapore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/woodcentral.com.au\/the-met-revolution-begins-in-se-asia-starting-with-ntu-singapore\/","title":{"rendered":"NTU Singapore: Asia’s Largest Mass Timber Building"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Interest in Mass Engineered Timber (MET) construction is booming, it seems that every other day a new timber skyscraper is making headlines – the tallest proposed tower is the w350 tower in Japan, 70 storeys but who is counting?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Singapore, the culmination of this rising trend can be seen in Toyo Ito & Associates\u2019 latest project – the \u2018Gaia\u2019 building for the Nanyang Business School at Nanyang Technological University (NTU). This is the second building on the NTU campus to use mass timber, following NTU’s ‘The Wave’ sports hall in 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both buildings are the product of Toyo Ito, a Pritzker Prize recipient and respected Japanese architect known for designs that seamlessly incorporate elements of nature. The Pritzker Prize is commonly referred to as the \u201cNobel Prize\u201d of architecture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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 Mr Seah Chee Kien, Project Qualified Person, Senior Managing Director, RSP Architects Planners & Engineers, Ms Jennie Chua, Pro-Chancellor, Mr Chan Chun Sing, Minister for Education, Prof Ho Teck Hua, NTU President, Ms Goh Swee Chen, Chair, NTU Board of Trustees, and Mr Toyo Ito, Design Architect of Project Gaia, President, Toyo Ito & Associates, Architects, at the launch of Gaia on Wednesday.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The zero-energy building, billed Asia\u2019s largest mass timber building, comprises two six-story curving rectangles joined at multiple points. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It consists mainly of sustainably sourced cross-laminated timber and glued laminated timber, or glulam, stiffened by a concrete core.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Introducing the ‘Gaia’ the largest wooden building in Asia<\/h6>\n\n\n\n

Designed by RSP Architects<\/a> in collaboration with Toyo Ito & Associates Architects the building will cater to the university’s new ‘Business School’<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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