Nashville Warehouse Company 

Project Description

Nashville has received its first large-scale mass timber structure in the form of two office buildings, up to 5 storeys tall, as part of a larger mixed use development.  A feature of the building is the gable roofs, which create a beautiful vaulted space that also highlight the warmth of wood from the exterior.  
 
The floor and roof decks use structural, prefabricated DLT panels supported by a Glulam post and beam frame. The mass timber superstructure is anchored back to centrally located concrete cores which transfer lateral loads down to the foundations.

As with many mass timber buildings, the key early design considerations were size of column grid, routing of MEP, and integration of the facade/edge support with the timber structure. The top floor on both buildings is characterized by vaulted ceilings, showing the exposed DLT ceiling, which also acts as the roof diaphragm. The DLT panels were fabricated up to 54' long in our automated facility.