With a height of 78 meters and 20 floors, the new office building TRÆ is Denmark’s tallest building with wood in the supporting structure. In addition to wood, which is the primary building material, reuse and upcycling are planned everywhere in the construction, which means that resource consumption and the CO2 footprint are significantly reduced.
A load-bearing structure made of wood, used wind turbine blades as sun protection, ceilings made of sea grass and old plastic bottles, floorboards from the recently demolished apartment blocks in the Aarhus West district Gellerup and discarded and refurbished Netto lamps in the ceiling.
The list of non-traditional building materials in the new office building TRÆ, which is located in Aarhus, is a long one. Adoptive trees have been planted outside the building, which would otherwise have had to be felled, and the pavement consists of recycled stones from an old square.
Everywhere in TRÆ, which is being inaugurated today, common materials and construction methods have been challenged and replaced by solutions to reduce the impact on climate and biodiversity.
The many green solutions mean, among other things, that TRE emits up to 75 per cent. less CO2 than if the high-rise was built in traditional materials such as concrete and steel.
“With TRE, we at PFA have tried to push the limits of how far you can take recycling, upcycling and CO2 reductions in a building. A different, wild and innovative construction has come out of this. I believe that WOOD is a crystal ball that gives us an insight into how construction will look in the future,” says Peter Morgan, property manager at PFA.
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