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Participants at 2017\u2019s hackathon at L\u2019ecole Superi\u00e9ure du Bois Nantes, France, planning wood elements\/modules. <\/span>
Photo courtesy Mets\u00e4 Wood<\/span><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Mets\u00e4liitto has announced Mass Timber Mid-Rise (MTMR), a graduate architecture design studio at Massachusetts Institute of Technology<\/a>\u2019s (MIT\u2019s) Department of Architecture<\/a>, is contributing to its\u00a0Open Source Wood<\/a> initiative. Launched in 2017 by Mets\u00e4 Wood<\/a>, the Finnish pulp and paper group’s wood products arm, the initiative is a call to action for architects, designers, and engineers to share innovation and contribute knowledge about largescale modular wood construction.<\/p>\n

Open Source Wood aims to speed up the growth of modular wood construction by streamlining the availability of wood element designs. Recently, the group at MIT, along with those from Mets\u00e4 Wood and students from Aalto University<\/a>, participated in a 24-hour Open Source Wood Hackathon<\/a> in Finland to generate new idea ideas relating to timber building.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt a moment when many coastal U.S. cities face the challenges of urbanization, testing ideas for green urban hybrid housing is more essential than ever,\u201d said Andrew Scott, professor at MIT Architecture. \u201cOur MTMR studio explores new models of mid-rise affordable housing utilizing mass-timber technologies and Mets\u00e4 Wood\u2019s Open Source Wood initiative provides us valuable insight into wood construction and prefabrication technologies.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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