AIA Miami Hard Hat Tour - Revisiting the House in A Garden

3642 William Avenue,Miami FL 33133

24 May, 2022

Description

AIA Miami's Hard Hat Committee invites you to check back in with Altelier Mey as their project, House in a Garden nears completion. Join AIA Miami for a tour of Atelier Mey's innovative Coconut Grove project. House In A Garden takes a bold approach by establishing the design objectives through the lens of ecology, material as resource, and energy and is the first CLT [cross-laminated timber] structure to be realized in Miami and Miami Dade. Asserting wood as the sole structural approach re-establishes the connection between regional ecologies and renewable material resources through solid wood building products. The project’s pivotal design objective is the utilization of cross-laminated timber [CLT] panels as the construction methodology. The design team worked closely with regional manufacturers, structural engineers, and thermal analyses to develop innovative strategies that reduce material, energy, and carbon generation. House In A Garden is committed to the use of Southern Yellow Pine, sourced in-state and manufactured in the southeast, materials regionally grown and processed for regional needs. The innovative envelope assembly exploits the CLT’s thermal performance and pre-manufactured precision processing to reduce construction timelines by streamlining the erection phase and on-site trade worker.