ELEMENTARFABRIK — Timber Circular Factory, Zurich
Zurich, Switzerland, Europe
Completed · Industrial · Circular Timber Production Facility · Temperate · 2022
A prefabrication factory for timber construction components, itself built from mass timber with design for disassembly principles embedded throughout. All structural connections are mechanical (bolted), enabling the building to be taken apart and reassembled elsewhere at end of life.
Innovation highlights
- design for disassembly with fully mechanical (bolted) structural connections
- CLT and glulam structure with no adhesive-bonded composite joints at key nodes
- material passport issued for every structural element
- circular economy building used to produce circular economy components
- full structural deconstruction and reassembly verified by engineering analysis
- Client / Developer
- Implenia / Erne AG Holzbau
- Architect
- ROK Architekten
- Engineer
- WaltGalmarini
- Type
- Circular Timber Production Facility
#circular economy #design for disassembly #mass timber #material passport #CLT #glulam
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