“Hyperion” – Wooden Trio
Jean-Paul Viguier et Associés, in partnership with Eiffage and Woodeum, has won a competition to build a 57-meter high residential tower in Bordeaux on plot 8.4 in the Saint-Jean Belcier district. The project named “Hyperion”, in reference to the tallest living tree on earth, will be built using a wooden CLT (Cross Laminated Timber) structure. This name was born by analogy with Hyperion – evergreen redwoods tree (Sequoia sempervirens), which grows in national “Redwood Park” in Northern California, USA. It is the tallest tree in the world – 115.61 m.
The 17,000-square-metre scheme (82 living and office rooms) includes three blocks with engineered timber structures, including an 18-storey tower that could become the world’s tallest modern timber-framed building when complete. Five or six apartments will be placed on each floor, with larger flats set in the corners to benefit from a double orientation. Six duplex apartments will be set on the tower’s uppermost levels.
Each apartment will have its own private balcony, as well as access to a shared garden described by the architects as an “urban jungle”. These outdoor areas will have abundant planting, water features and seating to provide a relaxing environment for residents.
Architects said: “At the top of the tower, small terraces to the duplex can be transformed into hanging gardens at the discretion of the inhabitants. Thought to be in harmony with the architectural proposal, the landscape intentions provide environmental quality and the notion of well-being and living well in the whole proposal.”
The square, conceived to articulate the urban functions and the flux at the ground floor, sets the tower and its roots. It will be sandwiched between a nine-storey housing block with integrated parking, and an eight-storey office block formed from two stacked boxes. At the tower foot articulates and meshes up a complex of lower housing, the form created permits to multiply the surface of the facades, and open those to the best exposure, searching for the best views and letting the sun infiltrate itself into the heart of the site, lightning the garden.
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