Reaching New Heights in Timber-Hybrid Design: Designing the Netherlands' Tallest Timber-Hybrid Residential Building

Authors

  • Pascal Steenbakkers Arup, Amsterdam, Netherlands Author
  • Babette Verheggen Arup, Amsterdam, Netherlands Author
  • Mathew Vola Arup, Amsterdam, Netherlands Author
  • Do Janne Vermeulen Team V Architecture, Amsterdam, Netherlands Author

Keywords:

Timber, Timber hybrid, High rise, High rise timber, Skyscraper, Plyscraper, Sustainability, Circularity, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Arup

Abstract

HAUT, a residential tower, is a prototype for building innovative and environmentally-friendly high-rise timber structures. The team – Arup, Team V Architecture, Lingotto and JP van Eesteren – designed and built an ambitious sustainable building: a timber skyscraper, with 21 floors one of the tallest timber hybrid towers in the world. Never before has this highest sustainability rating - BREEAM Outstanding - been awarded to a residential building in the Netherlands. As a result of the new techniques for a timber hybrid tower of 73 meters high, there is interest from all over the world for this combination of sustainability and urban densification.

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Published

2024-06-30

Issue

Vol. 13 No. 2 (2024)

Section

Articles