Liftin said he hopes the building will serve as a model for future building in New York. Each parking spot in its downstairs garage has an electric vehicle charging station. Timber House is highly insulated, its roof has solar panels, and it uses electric heat pumps for heating and cooling. “As an alternative to concrete and steel, it’s a beautiful material that makes incredible spaces to dwell in that is a sustainable way to build.”īuilding operations are also energy-efficient. “Timber is a renewable resource,” Liftin said. The architect said he chose wood for its esthetic qualities and negative carbon footprint. Europe also has buildings supported by wooden beams, and a 25-story, mass-timber mixed-use building opened in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, this summer. Liftin said mass-timber buildings are more common in the Pacific Northwest. In this case, the wood is Douglas fir from Washington state. Timber House, completed in May after about 2-1/2 years of construction, is made of glue-laminated timber, a type of structurally engineered wood known as mass timber. "It’s built out of a structure of wood, which is very unusual for a six-story-building like this, which would normally be built out of concrete and steel.” “Timber House is the first mass-timber condo building in the city, perhaps the state," Eric Liftin, principal of Mesh Architectures and the condo's architect and co-developer, said in an interview. NEW YORK : From the street, 670 Union Street looks like one in a line of brick buildings on a tree-lined block in Brooklyn.īut inside, exposed timber beams, columns and floorboards make it clear this 14-apartment condominium is no typical New York City building. REUTERS/Brendan McDermidįILE PHOTO: A view of a bedroom of an apartment inside Timber House, the city's first mass-timber condo building, in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, U.S., August 16, 2022. REUTERS/Brendan McDermidĮric Liftin, principal of Mesh Architectures and the condo's architect and co-developer, speaks during an interview inside an apartment at Timber House, the city's first mass-timber condo building, in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, U.S., August 16, 2022. REUTERS/Brendan McDermidĪ view of an apartment inside Timber House, the city’s first mass-timber condo building, in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, U.S., August 16, 2022. A view of the roof deck at Timber House, the city's first mass-timber condo building, in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, U.S., August 16, 2022.
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