Studio Gang completes mass-timber academic building in Paris

Architecture firm Studio Gang has sought to "amplify social connections" at its first French project, the John W Boyer Center in Paris, a "vertical campus" created using mass timber for the University of Chicago.

The academic structure in Paris's 13th arrondissement was designed by Studio Gang with a hybrid-timber-and-steel structure and a facade covered with over 900 cylindrical limestone-covered fibreglass "batons" that function as brise soleil.

Sited on an ongoing development adjacent to a housing block by Parc Architectes...