{"id":8835,"date":"2023-07-24T17:08:46","date_gmt":"2023-07-24T07:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/woodcentral.com.au\/?p=8835"},"modified":"2024-10-21T20:30:49","modified_gmt":"2024-10-21T10:30:49","slug":"fisher-paykel-wins-waf-award-for-nzs-top-mass-timber-build","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/woodcentral.com.au\/fisher-paykel-wins-waf-award-for-nzs-top-mass-timber-build\/","title":{"rendered":"Fisher & Paykel Wins WAF Award for NZ’s Top Mass Timber Build"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

New Zealand’s largest mass timber building is among the early winners announced for the World Architecture Festival Awards last week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fisher & Paykel’s new global headquarters, designed by RTA Studio, was awarded a “Building and Technology” award for using mass timber to drive net-zero emissions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This campus development comprises an office building, product development workshops, laboratories with car parking, and end-of-trip facilities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The development, catering for 1000 workers, “will set a new global benchmark in the post-pandemic hybrid workplace model encompassing net-zero office innovation,” according to Fisher & Paykel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

World Architecture Festival director Paul Finch said the winners were recognised for their ambition and scope. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“We were delighted with the quantity and quality of projects which were looking at the biggest problems facing the world and addressing them in a truly constructive way,” Finch said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The project will now enter a shortlist of 34 projects <\/a>– 10 of them timber-rich – with the overall winner announced in Singapore in November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Exterior render of the new Fisher & Paykel headquarters in Auckland, New Zealand. (Image Credit: RTA Studio).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Fisher & Paykel’s new Global Headquarters<\/h6>\n\n\n\n

RTA Studio, which in 2021 secured the Higher Education and Research and Best Use of Certified Timber Awards for the Scion Innovation Hub<\/a>, developed a masterplan for the 22,779-square-metre industrial site, formerly a car dealership.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

RTA Studio states that the project aims “to regenerate the land using plants that would have grown here in pre-European days \u2013 and then to weave the office and workshops in between.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Renders of the new headquarters provided by RTA Studio. (Image Credit: RTA Studio).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The headquarters, due for full completion in 2025, will be set out campus style and bring the business’s executive, administration and product development arms together on the same site for the first time in many years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The tagline for the project – ‘Come Home to Work’ \u2013 also sets out to facilitate the hybrid model that has grown up post-pandemic, where employees enjoy the flexibility of working several days per week remotely and the rest alongside the team on the company premises. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The new “Come Home to Work” is recognised as a “world-leading design.” Image Credit: RTA Studio.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The main office \u2013 called the ‘home’ \u2013 is a massive 3-story building constructed with a fully engineered timber diagrid frame with fluid, elegant lines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The timber diagrid design is similar in scope to that used in Scion Innovation House.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The mass-timber diagrid is similar to the innovative timber diagrid designed for the Scion Innovation Hub. (Image Credit: RTA Studio).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Earlier this year<\/a>, Wood Central contributor and World Architecture Festival judge Mark Thomson spoke of the design, which shifts the focus away from gravity mass timber buildings to geometrically stiffened forms to help in earthquake conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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