Future skyscraper6/23/2023 ![]() Wood is a renewable building material with proven advantages for health and the environment. The Tall Timber research team aims to develop innovations and building techniques that make tall wooden buildings durable and safe.Įngineered wood provides architects with new design possibilities that include high precision, lightness, acoustic qualities and parametric design solutions. The 22 story tall Flat Iron building with a steel frame construction was possible through inventions including elevators and sprinkler system. Similar to this evolution, buildings of the future should focus on the potential to limit risks of damage and thereby achieving safer buildings for people. Over the last 40 years cars have been designed to survive crashes, but in the last decade cars are instead designed to avoid crashing. The research has already taught the team that the design of modern buildings demands a new attitude toward design. The investigations cover construction, wind load, compression, connections and installations, fire-, noise-, water- and damp-resistance, durability, LCA, etc. The challenge to design buildings taller than 20 stories will create more resourceful ideas and solutions that can also be applicable for small-scale and mid-rise buildings in wood. The incitement is to force new innovations and refined solutions when pushing timber structure to its limit. The approach for the research is holistic and exploring the possibilities and challenges of using only engineered wood. The TTB research project studies the HSB jubilee project, a 26 story CLT (Cross laminated wood) building Stockholm designed by C.F. The aim is to develop feasible concepts for planning and designing timber buildings taller than 20 stories according to present regulations and identify issues that need more research. The research project was granted in 2015 and is financed by the Swedish Research Council, Formas. The development is a co-operation between representatives from different parts of the field including developers for timber buildings, housing developers and engineers. Møller is part of a multidisciplinary research project titled “Tall Timber Buildings” in collaboration with researchers from the Linné University in Växjö and RISE, The Swedish Research Institute. Tall Timber Buildings – Multidisciplinary researchĬ.F. The race for tall buildings is only the tip of an iceberg, what matter is the shift from an energy consuming and carbon intensive building industry towards resourceful and carbon sequestration ways of building our future cities. The vision and ingenuity of architects and engineers today is a response to the challenges and possibilities of our time that include strong urbanization and threatening climate change. The fascination of tall timber structures is similar to the wonder of early steel skyscrapers of the 20 th century. Architects and city planners all over the world share the same curiosity of feasible, sustainable solutions. Exemplifying the high performative lifecycle qualities of tall wood buildings reveals the potential of engineered wood. The proposal of a wood skyscraper pushes the physical boundaries of engineered wood and the boundaries of our imagination. The positive reaction and worldwide interest in the winning proposal for HSB competition in 2013 showed a longing for a new direction. The creative processes in which architecture comes into being goes beyond historical and technical knowledge its focus is the issues of our time. The possibility of realizing tall timber buildings highlights an important change in the way we are designing our future.Įngineered wood – Innovation and imagination Urban metabolism is a figurative way to describe the development from cities producing CO2 to future cities preserving CO2. Changing the way we build is part of an evolutionary and innovative approach that is essential within a worldwide movement towards a stronger circular bio-economy. The renaissance and innovation of engineered wood provides architects and city planners with the possibilities to change from a grey to a green building industry. This includes the importance of resourceful design and the way we build to enhance the value chains and lifecycle performance over time. The Nordic countries have the means to improve the way we design our cities and our approach to the use of available resources.
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