Brock Commons Tallwood House

Vancouver, Canada

At 53 meters high, Brock Commons Tallwood House is currently one of the tallest solid timber buildings in the world. It impresses with its consistent implementation of solid wood construction: Apart from a solid base floor and a solid core, the building consists of solid timber elements in its exterior walls, load-bearing structure and ceilings. Due to the high degree of prefabrication, it was realized very resource-efficiently and quickly. The avoidance of questionable materials in the interior construction is worth mentioning.

The office of Hermann Kaufmann Architekten brought the technical expertise for the development of the timber construction in solid timber into the design and implementation process. The actual planning was carried out by a local architectural firm, and the implementation by companies based in Canada.
This resulted in the realization of a building that is extremely well known, particularly in Canada and the USA, and which is also one of the award winners of the Canadian Green Building Council (LEED Canada) in 2018 and has already received numerous other awards.