Posted on 01/14/2019 9:14:31 AM PST by DUMBGRUNT
River Beech Tower project, an 800-foot residential skyscraper that would be built almost entirely out of wood.
Nor is it the only such effort. Similar plans are underway in London, Stockholm, and other cities. Eighteen-story buildings made of timber already exist in Vancouver and Minneapolis, while other structures have popped up in Norway and New Zealand. On the flip side, wood can sway too much, particularly in the wind a major issue for taller buildings. For the River Beech Tower project, Snapp and his colleagues actually solved this problem by constructing the whole building out of triangle and diamond shapes. A triangle is a much more structurally sturdy form than a rectangle, so taking a more flexible material like wood and building triangles out of it created a structure that holds up well under forces coming at it from all sides
(Excerpt) Read more at theweek.com ...
Whole towns and forts used to be made of wood. Savannah, St. Augustine, Chicago...
Gee, for some reason, they aren’t anymore.
Tor - Holistic Healer, and Architect.
Termites and beavers come to mind........
Just cover the building with wood-grain wallpaper...
You can’t build that stuff out of wood! The forests will be decimated or worse we will all die from lack of O2, and then the building will burn oh the pyromaniacs will be having a heyday.
Build a WOOD skyscraper around MUSLIMS, eh...?
Gosh, I wonder how that will work out.
My uncle who had two wooden legs burned to the ground.
The Termite Tower.
DING,DING,DING!
BINGO, We have a winner!
With some nice alliteration too.
If I cut a square diagonally into two triangles is it stronger than the square... no...
Me thinks the architect is from the P T Barnum school of salesmanship.
I knew that was coming.......LOL
Just my uneducated opinion but like George Constanza, I always wanted to pretend to be an architect.
The how to build out of wood has been solved, the WHY however...
You cant build that stuff out of wood! The forests will be decimated or worse...
Bricks can be fun but there are too many rules for brick.
Monadnock Building
The tallest load-bearing brick building ever constructed...
The walls are like eight FOOT THICK! Looking in from the sidewalk it is a bit different.
Sixteen floors max.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monadnock_Building
Bever, termite and fire resistant!
Also a very handsome building inside and out.
I like it!
It would be the world’s biggest “Jenga”!
The (non) Spruce Goose
Concrete
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