Emerging Design Territories: Production, Performance, the Hypernatural in Mass Timber

Susan Jones founded atelierjones in 2003. The firm’s award-winning work is founded on research, teaching and community engagement to envision new systemic, cross-disciplinary, sustainable strategies for buildings, including recent, groundbreaking work with Mass Timber. atelierjones recently completed four of the first Mass Timber structures built in the US, using Cross Laminated Timber. The firm “seeks out sites, buildings and materials with inherent, but underutilized value – to harvest their embodied energy, their catalytic power for owners and communities, their beauty.”

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