Saevfors Consulting

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Timber building, Sweden
architect: Staffan Schartner

Multistory Bamboo

Multistorey, urban, permanent housing is today entirely feasible with bamboo based components... High timber buildings have for long been forbidden in bye-laws due to the fire hazard. Recent development in wood industry however, has made these restrictions obsolete resulting in buildings over 100 m high.
Bamboo has many properties in common with wood, and therefore offer valuable inputs in design: Fire hazards, insects, acoustics, UV rediation...

The high tensile strength of bamboo makes it possible to build efficient, spiralled bracing structures and form high-rise columns, similar to the Shabolovka radio tower in Moscow, 1920.

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spacecol
"Spaced" column for high buckling prevention.
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Seismic safe connection

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The recent structural engineering studies concluded that the L-shape columns can take on considerable weight if prevented from buckling.(50 MPa compression) With the Double Decker Beam an option could be heavy floor slabs, filled with adobe and sand as when pumping concrete. This would contribute to the vertical sound and fire insulation between apartments.

The L-shape column and the Double Decker Beam permit seamless embedding in honeycomb flush walls.

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