TESTING THE WATER

摘要

How to get thermal mass into a lightweight building structure is one of those eternally interesting questions, says Meredith Bowles of Mole Architects. It's one he's dedicated plenty of thought to recently and hopes, with a project just completed for the University of Cambridge, to have found an answer to. The building in question is a new studio that has been completed as part of a ?m upgrade of the University of Cambridge's department of architecture. "A requirement of the brief was that the building had to be as sustainable as possible and as a material timber is the most sustainable," says Bowles. Previous projects carried out by the practice [included a number of housing schemes where Glulam timber frames had been used to keep the embodied energy of the building as low as possible.