Almere Pampus - A timber city steering towards a nature-inclusive urbanism

Almere Pampus - A timber city steering towards a nature-inclusive urbanism

Druschke, Luis (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)

Muñoz Sanz, V. (mentor)

Delft University of Technology

Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences

2023-05-08

Cities are constructed with extractive, finite resources that put enormous pressure on global climatic conditions. The building and construction sector is responsible for 36 percent of the global energy demand and 37 percent of the carbon dioxide emissions worldwide. With the prospect of massive urbanization, the built environment will fundamentally contribute to a spike in global carbon dioxide emissions. This paper investigates an alternative: It researches the potential of turning cities into carbon sinks with emphasis on the reduction of embodied carbon dioxide emissions of cross-laminated timber. Localizing the supply chain and bridging the gap between urban planning and timber production allows the investigation of synergies between the forest and the city. This research tackles the dilemma of accelerated urbanization while decreasing C02 emissions in a research-by-design approach with a city development project as a case-study. The proposed transition from the commodification of timber to the holistic benefits of trees results in an integrative design of ecologic processes and urban dynamics. This paper suggests a framework to offset the embodied carbon dioxide emissions of cross-laminated timber by transcending the nature city dichotomy.

Cross-laminated timber
embodied carbon
carbon sink
urban forests

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