MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
THE LONGHOUSE
BACKGROUND
With increasing demands placed on the planet through population growth and urbanization, energy remains one of the biggest challenges of the 21st century.
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Mass Timber, a wood-based building design and construction technology, has received attention over the past few decades given its efficiency, speed, precision.
PROJECT
Nova partnered with MIT Architecture to bring the Mass Timber Longhouse design to life for the designers and key stakeholders. Our scope included both a cinematic and schematic animation that would convey the design and attributes of the project.
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RESULTS
The design for The Longhouse has received wide-spread praise through the architecture community and developer community and has a number of prototypes coming online in the coming years.

FEATURED

THE
LONGHOUSE
CINEMATOGRAPHY + ANIMATION
SERVICES PROVIDED

CREATIVE
DIRECTION + DESIGN

CGI
PRODUCTION

ARCHITECTURAL
RENDERING

"The Longhouse was developed by a cross-disciplinary team in Mass Timber Design, a design workshop in MIT Architecture that explores the future of sustainable buildings at the intersection of architecture and technology."
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