Professor Ted Shelton’s Timber Tower Studio is working with Skidmore, Owing & Merrill’s Benton Johnson to propose a 12-story residential timber tower in Nashville.
Louisiana Pacific and the Nashville Civic Design Center are partners in the studio.
Since 2013, Johnson has worked to develop and test a structural system of cross laminated timber panels and glulam members capable of exceeding 40 stories in height. The research has proven .
Timber structural systems hold the promise of creating buildings with much lower energy profiles than those constructed with typical methods.
