Anthony Timberlands Center • Whitby Wood
An exterior mass timber precedent demonstrating complex stacked cantilevers, vertical wood siding, and integrated louvered solar shading for civic or educational architecture.
- What we like about this project
- The upper massing cantilevers dramatically over the transparent ground floor, anchored by heavy exposed glulam corner braces.
Materials
- timber
- glulam
- glass
- corrugated-metal
- concrete
Visual identifiers
- mass-timber
- cantilever
- folded-roof
- vertical-louver-facade
Style tags
- contemporary
- mass-timber
- sustainable
- expressionist
Visual tags
- mass-timber
- institutional
- cantilever
- contemporary-wood
- daylight-control
- Geometry
- Asymmetrical massing featuring stacked rectangular volumes with prominent cantilevers and folded, multi-pitched rooflines.
- Facade system
- Curtain wall glazing combined with vertical timber rainscreen cladding and operable timber louvers.
- Structural guess
- Mass timber post-and-beam construction with glulam framing and concrete foundation elements.
- Spatial scale
- Multi-story civic or institutional scale, roughly three to four stories high with expansive vertical glazing.
- Lighting
- Direct midday sunlight casting sharp shadows across the vertical wood louvers and structural overhangs.
- Atmosphere
- Warm and expressive, highlighting the natural textures of timber against bright daylight and metallic roofing.
- Environmental context
- Open suburban or campus-edge setting with clear skies, scattered clouds, and low perimeter landscaping.
- Spatial experience
- The building presents an open, permeable ground level stepping up to elevated terraces and sheltered upper porches.
- Composition rhythm
- Rhythmic vertical wooden slats and mullions contrasting with large expanses of smooth glass and corrugated metal panels.
- Style reading
- Contemporary mass timber institutional design
- Program
- Educational or research center
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- timber, glulam, glass, corrugated-metal, concrete
- Visual identifiers
- mass-timber, cantilever, folded-roof, vertical-louver-facade
- Style tags
- contemporary, mass-timber, sustainable, expressionist
- Visual tags
- mass-timber, institutional, cantilever, contemporary-wood, daylight-control
- Geometry
- Asymmetrical massing featuring stacked rectangular volumes with prominent cantilevers and folded, multi-pitched rooflines.
- Facade system
- Curtain wall glazing combined with vertical timber rainscreen cladding and operable timber louvers.
- Structural guess
- Mass timber post-and-beam construction with glulam framing and concrete foundation elements.
- Spatial scale
- Multi-story civic or institutional scale, roughly three to four stories high with expansive vertical glazing.
- Lighting
- Direct midday sunlight casting sharp shadows across the vertical wood louvers and structural overhangs.
- Atmosphere
- Warm and expressive, highlighting the natural textures of timber against bright daylight and metallic roofing.
- Environmental context
- Open suburban or campus-edge setting with clear skies, scattered clouds, and low perimeter landscaping.
- Spatial experience
- The building presents an open, permeable ground level stepping up to elevated terraces and sheltered upper porches.
- Composition rhythm
- Rhythmic vertical wooden slats and mullions contrasting with large expanses of smooth glass and corrugated metal panels.
- Style reading
- Contemporary mass timber institutional design
- Program
- Educational or research center
- Perspective
- Exterior Facade
- Discipline
- architecture