‘We wanted to take the sustainability of the building to the extreme,’ says Francis Kéré of the timber structure designed in cooperation with Austrian wood specialists HK Architekten.
Housing more than 350 students, the two brick-clad, mass-timber buildings, both of which are all-electric, bring more than just additional beds to the university's campus in Providence.
No stranger to pedestrian bridge design, the London practice teams with a German timber engineering firm for a sustainable span in the town of Balingen.
