McEwen School of Architecture

The McEwen School of Architecture has the ambitious mandate of teaching architecture at the intersection of three cultures—French, English & Indigenous. The use of mass timber in the construction of the new campus was seen as a way to make connections—to the landscape by emphasizing the materiality of the structure, and through the use of materials sourced in the Canadian North, and to a timeline that starts with wooden shelters of all kinds and ends with a pre-engineered, CNC-manufactured structure that still retains a measure of its rough-hewn authenticity. Timmerman’s role in this project was to supply and install Glulam beams and columns and CLT wall, floor, and roof panels. The building was assembled almost entirely during the winter months, without any requirement for site hoarding or heating, and included 220 m3 of Glulam members and 2700 m2 of CLTs.