One-Hundred-Meter Tall Residential Building Using Load-Bearing Timber Proposed for Winterthur
Danish studio Schmidt Hammer Lassen has revealed its design for a 100-meter-tall housing block in Switzerland.
Named Rocket&Tigerli, the terracotta-clad building is set to be built on a former industrial site in the city of Winterthur, near Zurich. It will be comprised of four volumes of different heights, one of which will rise to 100 meters tall making it potentially among the world's tallest buildings with a load-bearing timber structure.
Set to complete in 2026, the Swiss residential building could be among the ranks of other timber residential towers, such as the 85.4-meter-tall Mjøstårnet building. Schmidt Hammer Lassen designed the building with local Swiss architecture studio Cometti Truffer Hodel. It will have a mass timber structural core and load-bearing system that was developed in partnership with construction company Implenia and Swiss university ETH Zurich.
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