Why Steve Jobs’s Widow Built a Hurricane‑Resistant Timber School in the Caribbean | Wood Central
Laurene Powell Jobs and the XQ Institute are behind Bridgetown’s new Oceana Innovation Hub, the first of a three‑building mass‑timber campus now making waves across the Caribbean and around the world.Designed by Michael Murphy, founder of AMMA, the cross‑laminated timber and glulam building uses a “pyramidal, or many‑angled, roof design, which helps in avoiding or mitigating significant wind… this is a building that breathes.”
Source: Why Steve Jobs’s Widow Built a Hurricane‑Resistant Timber School in the Caribbean | Wood Central
Laurene Powell Jobs and the XQ Institute are behind Bridgetown’s new Oceana Innovation Hub, the first of a three‑building mass‑timber campus now making waves across the Caribbean and around the world.Designed by Michael Murphy, founder of AMMA, the cross‑laminated timber and glulam building uses a “pyramidal, or many‑angled, roof design, which helps in avoiding or mitigating significant wind… this is a building that breathes.”