Swedish studio White Arkitekter has built a timber-framed office building in Gothenburg that resembles an inverted ziggurat.
As the first wooden office building in the Swedish city, Nodi was designed by White Arkitekter to showcase the structural possibilities of wood.
Nodi contains retail on the ground floor and four floors of offices above
The upside-down structure integrates a series of cantilevers, allowing the floor plates to incrementally increase in size from the bottom to the top of the five-storey block.
"It sure takes courage to carry out a project like Nodi," said Joakim Hansson, the lead architect on the project.
The building's timber frame is visible inside and out
"Thanks to the close, ambitious and open cooperation between all parties, we have been able to develop a pioneering project that is Gothenburg's, and also one of Sweden's, first wooden office buildings," Hansson stated. Nodi is shortlisted for Dezeen Awards 2021 in the business building category.
The building is located in the Nya Hovås area
Its most distinctive element is its wooden structure, which is visible both inside and out.
This is a pillar-beam construction of glue-laminated timber, also known as glulam, which was manufactured by Swedish company Moelven using fir trees grown in central Sweden and Norway.
The wood gives a warm feel to the interiors
Due to the depth of this structure, the wood creates seating niches within the facade.
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