CTBUH @ Chicago | ATELIERJONES PRESENTS ON TALL WOOD | STEEL HYBRID HEARTWOOD

At Mies van der Rohe’s beautiful S.R. Crown Hall, at IIT Chicago, atelierjones presented their Type IV-C Heartwood Tall Wood Middle-Income Housing project at the Council for Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, CTBUH Spring Conference, on Steel-Timber Hybrid Buildings from May 23-24, 2022. Heartwood’s superstructure is a glu-lam post and beam, with CLT floor/ceiling assembly, that utilizes a robust steel Buckling Restrained Brace (BRB) Frame system with steel drag struts, for its lateral system, as part of the core of the building. The well-attended international conference sought to advance hybrid structural systems of Mass Timber and Steel to reach the potential of Tall Wood buildings across North America and Europe. Currently, Heartwood is one of 15 Tall Wood Buildings (defined as 8 stories or over) either under construction or completed in North America.

MASS TIMBER GOES HIGH WITH WOODAND LOW WITH CARBON

Susan Jones joins Building Better Podcast Episode 9 to talk about the many threads of mass timber and how her career and firm, atelierjones has evolved alongside this climate-friendly strategy.

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DISRUPTIVE ECOLOGIES GOES TO SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

Susan spoke at the beautiful historic Riverside, California Fox Auditorium in early September, for CBU/AIA Inland California. See the lecture here - students, professionals, and faculty, as well as the general public attended - all masked, socially distant and in person in the large historic theatre. A beautiful evening.

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ALTA LIVE!

Excited to present for ALTA LIVE! ALTA Magazine is an important emerging journalistic West Coast-forward voice out of Los Angeles, with a broad environmentalist and cultural vision for our cities and landscapes. Looking forward to lending our atelierjones’ perspective on forests, lower-carbon construction, and design-forward, sustainable architecture from the single family homes to mass timber affordable and workforce housing apartments. With Scott Shell, journalist Lydia Lee and editor Beth Spotswood. Live: Tuesday 6/2 12:30 pm PST.

CITY OF THE FUTURE | atelierjones and SIDEWALK LABS

Great interview about our innovative work with prefabrication and lower-carbon mass timber and lots going on around here at atelierjones! Thank you GOOGLE Sidewalk Labs!

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atelierjones WITH DESIGN FOR FREEDOM

atelierjones is proud to be a member of Grace Farms Foundation Working Group on their groundbreaking initiative, Design For Freedom. Led by their CEO and Founder, Sharon Prince, Design for Freedom is rapidly mobilizing the Architecture/Engineering and Construction disciplines to eradicate the use of slave labor for the production of building materials as part of the built environment’s global supply chain of materials. We were thrilled to see Susan presenting at Design for Freedom’s Inaugural event in late October, in partnership with Harriett Harriss, Dean of Pratt University’s School of Architecture , moderated by Yale University’s Associate Dean of the School of Architecture, Philip Bernstein, and fellow architects, Chris Sharples and Michael Green.

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MODERN ARCHITECT INTERVIEWS SUSAN at STANFORD UNIVERSITY - NOV. 2019

Super cool to have Tom DiOro interview our founder, Susan Jones at Stanford University - back in November 2019 - for MODERN ARCHITECT. It was amazing to be on campus again - yes, it seems like ages ago - but this PODCAST was released some weeks ago, just before COVID times started. Hear about atelierjones’ leadership in Mass Timber, our CLTHouse, stories of being an undergraduate Stanford philosophy major, and other various moments that Tom had fun teasing out of Susan’s lore of architectural and personal memories.

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Susan to present at Harvard GSD with leading voices on Mass Timber

GSD writes: “From cross laminated timber blanks to glulam slabs, beams, and columns, topics on mass timber tend to center around sustainability and industry advancements. The aim of this symposium is move beyond default topics of instrumentality and technology in mass timber by collecting unique positions from a group of architects, engineers, developers, and manufacturers in contemporary design, while also underscoring the value of intellectualizing these topics from within academia.” Organized and moderated by Jennifer Bonner and Hanif Kara. With speakers Nader Tehrani, Yasmin Vobis & Aaron Forrest, Kirsten Haggart, Friedrich Ludewig, Michael Ramage, Ben Kaiser, Susan Jones, and Kay Hartmann.