Wooden Skyscraper
Forget about steel and concrete says architect Michael Green and build it out of wood.
Wooden skyscraper. The renewable resource has high potential. European architects have been using CLT for years. Forget steel and concrete wood is the latest go-to material for building skyscrapers.
Sustainability The rise of wooden skyscrapers. The River Beech Tower is a conceptual wooden skyscraper thats 80 stories tall. As he details in this intriguing talk its not only possible to build safe wooden structures up to 30 stories tall and he hopes higher its necessary.
As you get higher up wind becomes faster at the top of the tallest building in the world. For the time being the tallest wooden building in the world is the Mjostarnet an 18-storey building north of Oslo that houses offices hotel rooms and apartments and stands just over 85. A nine-storey CLT apartment block in London is the tallest wooden building in the world and plans are afoot in Norway to build a 14-storey block.
Wooden skyscrapers are made of cross-laminated timber CLT in which perpendicular strips of wood are glued together to form sturdy beams. A Tokyo skyscraper is set to become the worlds tallest wooden building. The era of the wood skyscraper is dawning.
Japanese company Sumitomo Forestry says its 1148-feet-tall timber tower will be completed in 2041 to mark the 350th. As he details in this intriguing talk its not only possible to build safe wooden structures up to 30 stories tall and he hopes higher its necessary. In Hackney Dornbirn Melbourne Milan and other progressive centres there are already eight nine and 10-storey wood buildings.
The previous record holder the 67-metre-high 220 ft Pagoda of Fogong Temple was built 900 years ago. Japanese firm Sumitomo Forestry unveiled its designs for what would be the tallest wooden building in the world a 350-meter 1148-foot skyscraper dubbed as the W350 Project. TED Talk Subtitles and Transcript.