Architecture studio Urban Agency is extending an existing mill building in Dublin, Ireland, to create the 50-metres-high Dock Mill, which will be one of the tallest timber buildings in Europe.
The thirteen-storey building was commissioned by property development company Lioncor.
建築工作室Urban Agency正在擴建愛爾蘭都柏林的現有工廠建築，以創建50米高的Dock Mill，它將成為歐洲最高的木材建築之一。
這棟十三層的建築是由房地產開發公司Lioncor委託建造的。
“The brief was to design a state of the art sustainable and flexible building in the Dublin ‘Silicon Quarter’,” Urban Agency co-founder Maxime Laroussi told Dezeen.
To fulfil the sustainability criteria, Urban Agency chose to work with cross-laminated timber (CLT), which will suit the restrictions of the site and help with time efficiency.
Dock Mill’s existing facade and the floor plates of the industrial mill will be maintained and restored. A sustainably-sourced timber extension will then be added.
“The roof is to be removed and the localised CLT columns are to be inserted in the four corners of the existing floor plate all the way to the ground floor,” Laroussi said.
“From ground floor to basement level those columns are to seat on underpinned concrete perimeter walls.”
The building will house office spaces in the new timber tower, while the existing mill will be home to apartments. Its double-height top storey will have a winter garden with tall trees and plants.
A double-skin glass facade is designed to wrap the timber structure of the new extension, which the studio envisions as a “modern take on the glasshouse”.
Urban Agency聯合創始人馬克西姆·拉魯西（Maxime Laroussi）告訴Dezeen：“簡報是要在都柏林的“矽區”設計出一種先進的可持續，靈活的建築。
為了滿足可持續性標準，Urban Agency選擇使用交叉層壓木材（CLT），這將適合現場的限制並有助於提高時間效率。
Dock Mill的現有立面和工業廠房的地板將得到維護和修復。然後將添加可持續來源的木材擴展。
Laroussi說：“要拆除屋頂，將本地化的CLT柱插入到現有地板的四個角，一直到地面。”
“從一樓到地下一層，這些立柱都應安裝在加筋的混凝土周邊牆上。”
該建築將在新的木塔中容納辦公空間，而現有的工廠將用作公寓。其雙層高的頂層將有一個高大的樹木和植物的冬季花園。
雙層玻璃幕牆的設計是用來包裹新擴建部分的木結構，工作室將其設想為“現代的溫室”。
Urban Agency also looked at the context of the surrounding Grand Canal Dock area, also known as Silicon Docks, when designing Dock Mill and added spaces for public interaction.
“One key design element is the creation of a new floating pedestrian public streetscape in the form of a series of undulating boardwalks and wide amphitheatre-like stepping plazas,” Laroussi said.
“This, to connect all the buildings fronting Grand Canal Docks and give waterfront access to the public while creating a shortcut to the train station on the opposite side.”
在設計Dock Mill並增加公共互動空間時，Urban Agency還考察了周圍的大運河碼頭區（也稱為矽碼頭）的背景。
拉魯西說：“一個關鍵的設計元素是以一系列起伏的木板路和類似圓形露天劇場的階梯式廣場的形式創建一個新的浮動步行街公共街景。”
“這樣做，可以連接大運河碼頭前的所有建築物，並在公共區域建立海濱通道，同時為對面的火車站創建捷徑。”
According to Laroussi, Urban Agency is also currently working on a number of other large timber projects. “We are currently working on a few projects in Canada, where timber buildings are really taking off as regulation has been relaxed to allow that,” he said.
“The biggest challenge is always local regulation which varies from one country to another and even from a state or province to another, like in the US and Canada.”
“We are still battling to get over this issue in Ireland where timber buildings are still at their infant stage, but hopefully this will lay the ground for more daring timber buildings,” he added.
據Laroussi稱，Urban Agency目前還在從事其他許多大型木材項目。 他說：“我們目前正在加拿大的一些項目中，由於放寬了管制，木材建築的確在騰飛。”
“最大的挑戰始終是地方法規，這在一個國家與另一個國家之間，甚至在一個州或省與另一個國家之間都不同，例如在美國和加拿大。”
他補充說：“在愛爾蘭，木結構建築仍處於起步階段，我們仍在努力解決這個問題，但希望這將為更多大膽的木結構建築打下基礎。”
If completed, Dock Mill would be the second-largest timber building in Europe, behind the 18-storey Mjøstårnet in Norway by Voll Arkitekter.
Urban Agency has offices in Dublin, Copenhagen, Lyon and Düsseldorf and recently designed the Lille Langebro bicycle bridge in Copenhagen together with WilkinsonEyre.
如果建成，Dock Mill將成為歐洲第二大木材建築，僅次於Voll Arkitekter在挪威的18層高的Mjøstårnet。
Urban Agency在都柏林，哥本哈根，里昂和杜塞爾多夫設有辦事處，最近與WilkinsonEyre一起在哥本哈根設計了Lille Langebro自行車橋。
FROM:https://www.dezeen.com/2020/11/26/urban-agency-dock-mill-europes-tallest-timber-buildings/
