The Application of Wooden Building Materials in Contemporary Architectural Design

Wood is ecological sustainable to be used as construction material.It plays an important role for green-building, reasonable resource utilization and environmental protection. Meanwhile, the wooden building has a special significance to China.Wood implicates the traditional Chinese living style and cultural essence. This article analyzed the advantage and feasibility of using wood as a construction material.Besides,it has made a detailed analysis in the application of wooden building materials in contemporary architecture. Furthermore, it has also done a case study to reveal the salient energy-saving effort of wood and eventually discussed the application prospect in China. Through all these studies, with processing and used by the modern technology, energy conservation and environmental protection characteristics, wood was established to be an important factor of contemporary architecture, and continues to promote the development of contemporary architectural culture.