ArchitekTOUR in the wood cellar - a complete success
02.09.2021
Basements made of wood are more environmentally friendly, can be built faster and offer a more pleasant atmosphere. Switzerland's first basement made of wood was inaugurated and certified as part of an ArchitektTOUR: The wood used comes from Switzerland and stores a total of 222 tons of CO₂.
In the HOLZarchitekTOUR event together with the Initiative Holz BE, the first wooden basement in first wooden basement in Switzerland was inaugurated. In the multi-purpose room of this basement, more than 45 people gathered for the inauguration and followed the exciting speeches of the building owner, the planners and the research partners.
Exciting presentations
Prof. Thomas Rohner and Dr. Sonja Geier showed how building planning could develop in the future.
and what the planning of a jumbo jet and that of the apartment building at Blümlimattweg 15 have in common. Prof. Christoph Renfer
and Christian Dörig explained the peculiarities of wooden basement
and how they could soon be mass-produced.
First
cellar made of wood
What seemed impossible for a long time is now a reality.
Thun is the site of the first apartment building with a basement made entirely
made of wood. Houses without heating and without air conditioning make an important
contribution to climate protection. An even greater potential for energy saving lies in the choice of
lies in the choice of building materials.
Wood is already widely used in building construction. The
next step is to dispense with building materials that are harmful to the climate, such as steel
and concrete - even in basements and floor slabs. So that basements can be
be mass-produced from wood, a number of research questions need to be clarified.
need to be clarified. A research project of the Bern University of Applied Sciences together with
Timbatec, TS3 and other business partners is currently addressing these questions.
are being addressed. A start-up is to be founded from the group of research partners,
which will be operationally active from 2023.
Research project
DeepWood
The DeepWood project refers to the future
the future development of the BIM maturity level from level 2 to level 3.
and addresses the challenge of how to organize the collaboration of several users
users can be organized simultaneously in a common model. The
BMW15 apartment building is the Living Lab for this research project with the
Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts and the Bern University of Applied Sciences.
