Abstract

Interdisciplinary design for tall wood buildings (TWBs) is a challenging task mainly due to the ongoing research on the behaviour of TWBs and to achieve cost-effective designs that allow the construction industry to improve the sustainability of the building inventory. Although more than 40 TWBs projects have been built, the lack of a guide regarding the distribution of structural elements increases the time that preliminary design requires, which commonly implies several iterations of different proposals. Based on the morphologic study of six TWBs, this paper analyses qualitatively timber buildings with reinforced concrete cores and study different parameters that should be taken into consideration in the early stage of the project, in order to achieve a healthy structure in a reduced time period. A comparative table with a range of values for each proposed parameter is presented. A range of values for the different studied parameters are presented as a guideline for the RC core typology.