Canadian studio Montgomery Sisam Architects has designed a university research and teaching centre with an exposed mass-timber structure that contributes to its ambitious net-zero carbon and energy goals in Oak Ridges Moraine, Ontario. The 2,680-square-metre (28,860-square-foot) University of Toronto Koffler Scientific Reserve is set on 350 hectares just outside of Toronto. Montgomery Sisam Architects, which is based in the city, completed the research and teaching facility for ecology and environmental biology in May 2025. The client's scientific pursuits informed the design. "Researchers there study the smallest changes in organisms to understand systems at a global scale, and that relationship between the micro and the macro became the lens through which we evaluated every design decision," Montgomery Sisam Architects principal Robert Davies told Dezeen.