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Report Copyright Violation | HAMMER TIME: How to build a skyscraper out of wood "Building skyscrapers out of wood: It sounds bizarre, unsafe, maybe even a bit twee. But it could actually be the future of construction."
"Each material has its different pros and cons, and there's no reason that timber shouldn't be part of that larger discussion," Todd Snapp, an architect with the global firm Perkins + Will, told The Week. "I can't say it's better than steel or concrete. I can say it should be just as relevant in the discussion of what material to use."
Snapp is the design principal guiding the firm's River Beech Tower project, an 800-foot residential skyscraper that would be built almost entirely out of wood. The tower was designed in parallel with a master plan the firm was awarded to develop an area in Chicago's downtown, on the east shore of the river and just west of Grant Park. Cambridge University's Natural Material Innovation project then came to them with the notion of doing a wooden skyscraper. The idea was they would pick a real-world site and then develop the building from the ground up: As the architects fleshed out the project, that would give the Cambridge group specific structures, practices, and so forth to test out in the lab. "We wanted the research to be tied to some sense of what's immediately achievable," Snapp explained. "Ground it in reality. Let's have a real site." [ link to theweek.com (secure)] Last Edited by Pooka on 01/15/2019 09:05 PMPrayer is the most powerful force on earth.
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Report Copyright Violation | Re: HAMMER TIME: How to build a skyscraper out of wood 800 foot residential skyscraper
that's lots of units
you know someone's gonna cause a fire eventually
doesn't sound too safe |
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Report Copyright Violation | Re: HAMMER TIME: How to build a skyscraper out of wood 800 foot residential skyscraper
that's lots of units
you know someone's gonna cause a fire eventually
doesn't sound too safe
Quoting: PO'd I'd worry, too, but the concept is interesting. Wouldn't think much of living in/having an office in an upper floor of a wood-built skyscraper. Prayer is the most powerful force on earth.
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