Scion's building in Rotorua, New Zealand, Te What Nui O Tuteata, is the highlight of a vision for an innovative wood structure and the work of a team of engineers, designers and builders who were not afraid of a challenge. And as Senior Editor Jim Bowden noted in the flashback of this story until December 2021, this challenge rewarded the architect RTA Studio + Irving Smith with the World Prize and the best use of the certified Timber Award at the World Architecture Festival in Lisbon, Portugal.
Scion is a Crown Research Institute that specializes in research, science and technology development for forestry, wood products, wood materials and other biomaterial sectors.
The word wood price, which is awarded by PEFC/Responsible Wood, acknowledges architect that provides certified wood as main building material for buildings that are outstanding in sustainability, innovation, quality or aesthetics. The judges in Lisbon included Brisbane Eco-Architect and the responsible wood director Mark Thomson
The World Architecture Festival is the largest event for live awards for architects and designers, which celebrates finished buildings that stand out for their innovative and effective use of wood. The festival includes a special price for the best use of certified wood that is assigned to projects that have been recognized for their commitment to sustainable timber construction. The festival attracts more than 2,200 older architects and customers from all over the world and offers architects the opportunity to gain recognition and win new business.
Architects and project teams from all over the world entered their buildings in the competition.
The name of the Scion building was given by three subtrims that had the country's power from the country. The name recognizes the mana of the ancestors – from the whoom The Three Arecend and the connection to the earth, volunteer.
After the building has been completed, important designers thought about what it meant for them to work on a project that showed wood as an innovative, carbon -rich building material.
Andrea Stocchero, Scion's sustainability architect, said the desire to inspire people to use wood. Professional groups such as the NZ Institute of Architects, Consulting and Designers were drawn to the building to get a better understanding of the technical performance of the use of wood materials and the possibilities for the carbon dioxide of this building.
“If you look at the building from the outside, it is a glass box. Sure, it has interesting colors that fit the forest, but what is special, the wonderful combinations of wooden materials that are among the WhakarewareWa and Tokorangi forests of Mana, said Stocchero, is the wonderful combination of wooden materials,” said Mr. Stocchero.
“The symbolism is very strong … we have a forest … we have a building … we have a purpose.”
“When people go in the building, you notice the contrast between the simple aesthetics of the outside and the shock, to get into a huge emptiness, with all this wood, the diagriking structure, lines and architecture. It is the essence of the building.”
The interior design was a combination of engineering, wooden material and a simple but organic design.
A trio of “Peaks” in Glulam wood, which represents the three HAPU in the region, is proud at the entrance. Visitors go under these portals to an atrium with three heating, in which a curated exhibition with wood fiber technology and a café welcome the public with a view to the above -mentioned cooperation.
The structural diagrida, which rises three floors, is immediately available to form the skeleton of the building. These structural elements consist of powerful, laminated veneering wooden wood and have swallow tail knot joints that put together and stick together.
The atrium with three heights atrium leads to a spectacular wooden ceiling, which is inspired by the structure of a radiata pine genome with lighting that represents the Matariki night sky. Wooden battens and plywood panels in subtle tones show the barcoding effect of plants -dna. “This combination somehow speaks the truth,” said Andrea Stocchero.
“It tells the story we wanted to tell,” he said. “And it is the story of a material you see, touch them, they feel that the forest grows.”
Stocchero added: “The world is looking for decarbonization in many different sectors. The design and construction sector of the Scion building is a large part of carbon emissions from our society and industrial era.
“In the pre -industrial period of biological materials and locally available materials, we have put on materials that are the result of technological developments that have shifted the boundaries from a technical point of view.”
The Scion building opened in March 2021 stores 418 tons of Co.2 For the life of the building – the emissions of 60 return flights from Auckland to London.
Te what nui o tuteata has received prices for university education and research worldwide. a New Zealand architecture award (commercial); And a Resee Total Color Award (neutral).
Note from the publisher: The term “tapu” in the Māori culture refers to something that is holy or has spiritual restrictions. It embodies a strong imposition of rules and forbidden, which indicates that a person, an object or a place that is tapu cannot be touched or approached. The concept of Tapu is of fundamental importance in the Māori life, often associated with the natural world and the energies it contains. It is contrary to 'Noa', which means the opposite state that represents the ordinary or unrestricted.
