Architects reveal plans for world’s tallest hybrid timber building
Pritzker Prize-winning architect Shigeru Ban recently revealed his plans for the world’s tallest timber hybrid giant building, the Terrace House.
The structure will have multiple tiers of lush greenery rising up through a latticework frame that is made of “meticulously engineered timber” from local sources, according to Inhabitat. The building’s latticework frame will be interspersed with plenty of greenery rising up from the ground floor.
The design will be a luminous icon for Vancouver’s growing cityscape. It will also be the world’s largest timber hybrid structure. Ban’s design will be placed next to the famous Evergreen Building, designed by late architect Arthur Erickson.
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The promising project will be led by Vancouver-based developer PortLiving. When designing it, Ban wanted to make it stand out on its own, but without eclipsing the existing architecture.
“We have brought together the best of the best – a team of true experts in creative collaboration, working together for the first time ever on a single project. The result is truly a once-in-a-lifetime project setting new standards in design and construction,” said Macario Reyes, founder and CEO of PortLiving. “Every detail has been considered right down to the specific foliage on the terraces. It only made sense to bring on Cornelia Oberlander to continue her vision and create continuity between the Evergreen Building by Arthur Erickson and Terrace House by Shigeru Ban.”
The Terrace House won’t be the city’s only wooden wonder, as the world’s current tallest timber building, Brock Commons, was built in Vancouver in 2016.
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