W350 Project Japan: an Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Community in a Wooden Skyscraper

Designing Matter, Essay, High Density, Nikken Sekkei, Sumitomo Forestry, Technology and fabrication

Carbon footprint, Cities, Collective housing, Comfort, Designing Matter, Environment, Forest, Global Awareness, Greenery, Hotel, Housing, Hybrid technique, Japan, Office building, Skyscrapers, Social consciousness, Structure, Sustainability, Sustainable, Technological Approach, Technology, Timber, Waste management, Wood construction

The aim is to create environmentally-friendly and timber-utilizing cities that become forests through increased use of wooden architecture for high-rise buildings. This concept plan has been prepared primarily at Tsukuba Research Institute, Sumitomo Forestry’s research and development facility. The institute is expanding possibilities for wooden buildings as a roadmap for future technology such as the development of building methods, environmentally-friendly technologies, and trees that become resources and building materials.