The Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, the Binational Softwood Lumber Council, and Parsons New School for Design just announced the winners to a design competition they sponsored called Timber in the City. As Curbed noted earlier today, the competition asked architecture students to create a mixed-use development with wood technologies for a site in Red Hook. The site in question is the bus parking lot across Beard Street from the IKEA. According to Curbed, “Designs had to use wood as the primary building material, and they had to include affordable housing, a bike share shop, a wood production facility that could produce materials for buildings, and a smaller digital wood fabrication warehouse and learning center.” Above is the winning design, dubbed Grow Your Own City, from students at the University of Oregon. The plan includes low-rise buildings that house apartments, a restaurant, and bike shop, as well as one higher tower. They also designed an eco public park that the development is built around. The construction is of modular pods made of CLT panels; CLT is a fire-resistant engineered wood building material. To see the second place winner, check out the Curbed post. See all the honorable mentions at the official Timber in the City site.

Design Students Imagine A Mixed-Use Complex For Red Hook [Curbed]
Rendering via Curbed


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