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来自专筑编辑雷君，刘庆新的报道。随着环保意识的逐渐加强，本世纪人们开始使用木材建筑而不是钢筋和混凝土。Joseph Mayo在他的书中研究了二十个建筑案例。

梅奥是西雅图马赫勒姆的一名建筑师， 2011年获得新兴职业旅游奖学金后写了这本书。该项目由当地的AIA赞助主办，每年奖学金都颁发给那些专注于西雅图设计界的有关问题的新人。看到Kaden + Partner在柏林的e_3住宅项目，并考虑到森林茂密的西北太平洋建造的潜力，梅奥开始对木材感兴趣。为了赢得奖学金，他决定在欧洲实现实木建造的创新。在他的游记中，涵盖了许多对建筑访问和与建筑师的对话，他把这些都展览在西雅图的一个画廊里。后来，他发现大部分与这主题有关的书籍都只不过是花瓶，毫无实用性。他在《实木》书中说，无论是技术还是设计都是最新出品的。

很显然这本书是面向建筑师的，书中提供了大量的技术咨询，《实木 》着实是一个深奥的读本。导论部分，梅奥对建筑木材介绍很短，讲述了封存二氧化碳效益大规模木结构，详细介绍各种实木材料和概念，和解决的问题，木材建筑（结构，消防，等等），他提出八个地理性案例研究章节：英国，挪威，瑞典，德国，瑞士，奥地利，北美国，新西兰和澳大利亚。每一章节都是细述：有完工照片，有建造的照片，有地面规划，有详细的绘图，还有图表。太多的书把自己局限于第一章（光泽照片成品建筑），所以《 实木 》对于建筑师来说价值非凡。

With a growing awareness of the environmental benefits of solid wood over steel and concrete construction, more and more buildings this century are being constructed out of wood. With over twenty case studies in Joseph Mayo's new book, Solid Wood, World-Architects spoke with the architect and author about a handful of them.
Mayo, an architect at Mahlum Architects in Seattle, wrote the book after winning an Emerging Professionals Traveling Scholarship in 2011. Sponsored by the local AIA chapter, the annual scholarship asks entrants to focus on issues relevant to the Seattle design community. Seeing Kaden + Partner's E_3 housing project in Berlin, and considering the potential for similar construction in the well-forested Pacific Northwest, Mayo became interested in timber systems and decided to look at innovations in solid wood construction in Europe for his winning scholarship. Following his travels, which consisted of visiting buildings but also speaking with architects and others involved on the projects, he lectured and then put up a gallery show in Seattle. Later, seeing that most books on the subject were more eye candy than useful technical advice for architects, Mayo wrote Solid Wood: Case Studies in Mass Timber Architecture, Technology and Design, which was recently released by Routledge.
While obviously geared toward architects, given the voluminous technical advice in its pages,Solid Wood is hardly an esoteric read. Following an introductory section where Mayo gives a short history of building in wood, speaks about the carbon-sequestering benefits of mass timber construction, details various solid wood materials and concepts, and addresses concerns of building with wood (structure, fire, etc.), he then presents the case studies in eight geographical chapters: England, Norway, Sweden, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, North America, and New Zealand and Australia. For each case study he clearly describes each project's details, aided by numerous illustrations: photographs of the completed buildings, construction photographs, floor plans, detail drawings, and diagrams. Too many books limit themselves to the first (glossy photos of finished buildings), so Solid Wood is a valuable book for architects interested in designing with wood.

在深入研究书中世界顶级建筑设计事务所设计的五大建筑之前，弄明白“木材设计”中的“木”是什么很有必要。这不是轻型框架结构，这是常见的单户住宅，但又有着局限于更高和更多的城市项目的缺点。它可以是实心的木结构，如原木，但更多的时候它是实木，其中小尺寸的木材装配粘合剂和压力创造跨度较长的产品，更广泛的设计选择，而不是个人意愿使木材变质。这些包括胶合木（集成材），单板层积材（LVL），和交叉层压木材（CLT）。因为这些都是当今最流行的体系，虽然在必要的时候其他体系会被定义,但下面的案例中使用这些缩写。

Before delving into five of the buildings in the book designed by World-Architects member firms, it is worth pointing out what the "wood" in "designing with wood" is. It is not light-frame construction, which is common for single-family houses, but which has drawbacks that restrict if from being used in taller and more urban projects. It can be solid timber construction, such as logs, but more often it is engineered wood, in which small dimensional lumber is assembled with adhesives and pressure to create products with longer spans, a wider range of design options, and less variability than the individual lumber. These include glue-laminated timber (glulam), laminated veneer lumber (LVL), and cross-laminated timber (CLT). Given that these are the most popular systems being used today, the below case studies use these abbreviations, though other systems will be defined when necessary.

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