TIMBER TOWER
BUSHNELL PARK, HARTFORD, CT

This 35-story high-rise design, predicated on Skidmore Owings & Merrill’s “Timber Tower Research Project” (2013), explores the interrelationships between the structural principles of CLT in high-rise design, urban residential programming, natural ventilation, among other efforts at sustainable best practices.

A ventilated double façade, for example, figures prominently on the southern and western exposures and augments the natural ventilation of each residential unit. Upon analysis of annual illuminance, fenestration and solar-gain walls were strategically placed to maximize daylight and solar-gain (one passive hot water system per dwelling unit).