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Tropical Renewable Architecture Design Lab
National University of Singapore

The SkyTimber™: Tropical Renewable Architecture Design Lab is a focal point of advanced designs and interdisciplinary research, thought leadership and education on tropical renewable architecture in the Southeast Asian region and the tropics worldwide. It brings together interdisciplinary groups of architects, researchers, industry partners, regulatory bodies to develop capability to design and build tropical renewable architecture in academic, professional, built environmental sectors - envisioning the symbiosis between sustainable forestry and built environment in the tropics.

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NUS DOA Material Library
NUS-CDL Tropical Technology Lab
NUS SDE4 Testbed Facade
Tree Cover Gain-Loss (Global Forest Watch)
Sky Timber NUS-BFH International Workshop 2019
Sky Timber Design Studio (2018) / Renee Tay / A/P Shinya Okuda
Sky Timber Design Studio (2018) / Renee Tay / A/P Shinya Okuda
Sky Timber Design Studio (2018) / Renee Tay / A/P Shinya Okuda
Sky Timber Design Studio (2018) / Final Review
Sky Timber Design Studio (2017) / Florian Seufert / A/P Shinya Okuda
Sky Timber Design Studio (2017) / Florian Seufert / A/P Shinya Okuda
Sky Timber Design Studio (2017) / Florian Seufert / A/P Shinya Okuda
Sky Timber Design Studio (2017) / Florian Seufert / A/P Shinya Okuda
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INNOVATIVE DESIGN-RESEARCH

Tropical renewable architecture, namely tropical mass engineered timber (MET) to sink carbon in solid building forms, requires interdisciplinary design and research indispensably. We deliver unique yet functional sustainable architectural aesthetics for human-comfort and sustainable built environment, which is enabled by extensive research across forestry, manufacturing, architectonics, building physics to champion high humidity, weathering and termite attacks in the tropics.

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The Tropical Renewable Architecture Design Lab explores unique yet functional sustainable architecture by championing various challenges on tropical renewable architecture, especially in high-density urbanism, aiming to synthesize living comfort, passive microclimate strategy, carbon sink in building forms and symbiosis between greenery and habitation.

Due to year-round sunlight, some plantation species in the tropics may grow a few times faster than those in temperate climate, which may eventually have relatively weak mechanical properties on their own, which most of the current use is limited to furniture, plywood, pulps and chips. However, those fast-growing plantation timber may become suitable for construction use if developed into tropical MET, which may enable massive buildings as effective carbon sink for long-term: a true game changer in the global warming era.

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