Chunky columns wrap the outside of Wooden Up, an apartment block in Paris by French studio Local Architecture Network with a glued-laminated and cross-laminated timber construction.
Created for builders Semapa and REI Habitat, the 14-storey constructing within the metropolis’s thirteenth arrondissement offers 132 timber-framed residences raised on a concrete base containing industrial items.
Paris-based Local Architecture Network (LAN) created the fifty-metre-tall block with timber sourced fully from France and transported through the river Seine. It’s left uncovered each externally and internally.

“Wooden Up is among the first buildings in France to surpass the everyday top limits for timber constructions,” stated the studio.
“Typically protected and hidden, the picket construction is as a substitute intentionally uncovered. It’s fully encapsulated in glass to make it seen. Often matte, the wooden turns into reflective due to its protecting layer.”
The glued-laminated timber (glulam) and cross-laminated timber (CLT) construction is fashioned of Douglas fir on the outside and beech and spruce on the inside, chosen primarily based on the inherent properties of every.

Raised on the concrete base, the picket columns and the concrete ground plates of Wooden Up type a grid that defines the outside. It additionally types a second pores and skin that gives balconies, shade and privateness to the just about fully glazed facades behind.
On the block’s eighth ground, a big cut-out accommodates a 300-square-metre communal terrace, with furnishings created from recycled wooden offcuts leftover from the constructing’s development.
Smaller residences and double-height duplex items on the corners of the block are organised vertically to offer the potential for future reconfiguration. The inner glulam construction is left uncovered to the body full-height home windows.
“The 132-unit challenge is based on an easy idea: for every giant residence on one ground, two smaller items are located straight above on the following ground,” defined LAN.

“As a logo of the hyperlink between the outdated ceiling of Paris and this new urbanism, the amount of the challenge opens to the town via the creation of a standard ground,” LAN added.
“Positioned as a hybrid between a lined courtyard, a loggia, and a viewing space overlooking Paris and Ivry, this versatile house accommodates each spontaneous, casual day by day actions and organised occasions for as much as 300 members,” it added.

Different examples of mass-timber constructions in Paris embrace an academic building by Studio Gang, also in the 13th arrondissement, which was constructed utilizing a hybrid construction of metal and timber.
The race to assemble ever-taller timber constructions in an try to scale back the environmental affect of development was lately explored in Dezeen’s Timber Revolution Series.
The pictures is by Charly Broyez except said in any other case.