Open Academy Structural Desiqner: Ramboll

摘要

The Open Academy in Norwich is a £2Om new school building. The building has three storeys and houses classrooms, a theatre and a sports hall. The total floor area is over 9,500m2, at the centre of which is a glulam tied arch roof that forms an atrium. What is special about the Open Academy is that the entire superstructure of this sizeable development is constructed out of cross-laminated timber panels. The finished development represents the UK's largest solid timber panel building. It uses over 3,500m3 of timber and can be argued to have a negative embodied carbon footprint.