This Swiss Building blew me away! All Wood and Concrete - NO Insulation
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- Опубліковано 17 лип 2024
- The Factory from the last episode - Kung Holz Bau - is building a new office space, and turns out.. ITS ALL WOOD, with a Concrete Center for stairs. Its the coolest building Matt has ever been in. From the fully sanded finished 16 inch thick wooden walls, to the grid ceiling and flooring system that allows for killer heating, insulation, and soundproofing - You're going to want to go ahead and click play.. This is Swiss building at its finest!
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He didn't mention how beautiful and amazing the building was.
Don't forget incredible.
Or that it was wood, I had to google that part myself.
WooHoo, you guys made me yodel.
The Swiss build and material quality is always of high standard. Very impressed with this building method. Its Precise, Robust, elegant, well planned and executed.
For people complaining about all the wood usage. There are advantages to doing it like this. It means one can replace concrete with wood. Concrete production is one of the largest emitters of CO2 in the world. In contrast, wood sucks up CO2. The more wood we put into our building mass, the more CO2 we get rid of from the atmosphere, assuming we regrow the forrest that was cut down. Most of the developed world has a health net growth in forrest though, so there is ample opportunity to use more wood for building construction.
Technology has been developed today to use wood for building high rise buildings. Replacing concrete in high rises with wood could significantly cut down on CO2 emissions.
The future of building is likely bricks, stone and wood over concrete.
So essentially what you're saying is that I should reduce my focus of being a welder/fabricator and start another apprenticeship in masonry!? Only kidding... of course... in regards to my career choice. Our youth should really be listening close and participating in these conversations and research efforts.
@@edencastillo4417 Yeah... I dunno but 5% is still a lot. And he never claimed it to be "the largest" just "one of the largest". And with your 25% Agriculture being only about 5x that much that isn't hard to assume.
@@brightlamp2549 CO2 isn't good for plants. You make it sound like a health drink. Plants are simply made from CO2 and water mostly. What is "good" is a bit more complicated question. Plant growth is seldom inhibited by lack of CO2. It is of more significance the role CO2 plays as a green house gas. Your argument is about as sensible as saying that we should not be concerned with chloride gas pollution because salt is made of potassium and chloride gas.
all problems started when people stopped living from the living nature and started using other than stone, wood and other plants. What comes to thinking green these days makes world just worse, all those solar panels, windmills etc are just harmful waste in the nature, bio degradable plastic generate micro plastic which pollute everything etc, so please stop thinking green and build more nuclear plants.
World is on constant change, no point to fight against change best is to adapt or die.
@@edencastillo4417 forestry in total is about 6% but most of this comes from areas where trees are chopped down and burned for fire wood without replanting. Building wood is practically net zero if the trees are replanted.
No one even mentioned that the sand would act as a serious fireblock between floors -- genius
I am building a workshop apartment (first-floor workshop, second-floor apartment) and very worried about the noise. The sand sounds like an awesome idea (pun intended 😛).
My apartment from The 60's has 7 centimeters of sand between a concrete floor and The Wonder floor.. It's not anything new
@@iblis89 Never understand why people say "its nothing new" because people ALWAYS say that when no-one has even claimed it to be anything new.
Nothing new. There are buildings that are hundreds of years old with sand in the floor.
@@HeikkiHeer the idea is still genius. Whats your point?
Many people here commenting on the perceived wastefulness of the extreme use of wood in this system
Obviously, none of these people have ever been to Switzerland.
I assure you, they are in no danger of using more wood than their forests are producing. Swiss forests are growing at a rate of several million cubic centimeters worth of lumber every year. The forestry program here is fantastic, profitable, and very sustainable. Almost like they've had 5000 years to figure it out or something...
Switzerland has a VERY long tradition of buildings things with solid wood, 100% wood everywhere. What you are seeing here is a result of this wood culture, add to this the fact that wood is a resource which the country has an abundance of. They DON'T have an abundance of other materials like the United States, plus they don't want to mine away their mountains to make concrete.
Argue about sustainability all you want, but please remember that what is sustainable in the US is not sustainable in Switzerland, and vice verse.
Then add to this that Swiss builders absolutely despise any product that cannot be sourced from nature. So plastic insulation is pretty much out. All of the sort of engineered materials US carpenters use are out.
The final factor when considering sustainability is this:
Swiss buildings are built to last for 200 years or more. Literally, this is not an exaggeration. They build in ways that to you may seem excessive, but it's because they're built to last for so long. US homes in contrast are built to last 50-100 years, often less. This wouldn't make sense in the American mindset at all. Swiss won't use the insulation systems Americans use, because they don't trust these products to last. Their concerns are simply in different places than yours.
I completely agree, Europeans design their houses for generations, and that's the best tactic sustainability-wise.
Thank you for the class !
Thank you for this input. You sir, just opened my mind a bit wider.
What the heck! Do they think all that wood just grows on trees?
it's literally what exactly is happening
@@EpicHardware r/wooosh
@daylight moonlight woooosh
Its okay if you hate when you so it the right way.
Many countries in Europe have laws regarding growing trees. That way forrests are growing despite the use of wood for buildings.
Wood done right is possible the best you can do.
Sandfill is an old technology stays warm, lots of air in between and stays dry, water flows dowwards no mold build up.
Looong time ago so in the 1950 th.when we buildt woodfloors in Austria we used wood stringers and they where filled in between with Hoch Ofen Schlacke ( steel mill slag ) was at that time the best deal and you used a otherwise unusable product.
Super insulation and the floor stays warm, whats importand if you are on the groundfloor.
Sand is as old as buildings are, in agent times they used it as buffer so the Tile or stone Floors dont break.
Dont know who remembers stamped and compacted soil floors.
Other countrys other methods.
Hard to implicate in the US we are here a fast track building group.
Have a nice weekend
Chris Schmidt
oh, Austria, the plague of europe, is good the wood from Romania?
There is a reverence to this building. The form bleeds through the function. The symmetry and use of bare materials forces any that can build to gasp in awe. The Helvetic Confederation is "[...] the light of the world. A [nation] built on top of a hill".
The houses they show on their website are so refined and beautiful looking. Waving patterns on the walls, rounded transitions from wall to roof line, some true masterpieces on display...
These series with the trades you're visiting, Las V, Munich, Switz and others are just gorgeous, it's such a joy to sit and watch all this info.Thanks for all this work.
Thanks for taking us along on your journey, its really neat to see how things can be and are done elsewhere.
The *coolest* building you've ever seen has no insulation? Shocking! :)
I'm from brazil and insulation isn't a thing here, so can anyone explain to me whats the point of it, does it have a real use?
you're not going to get much better insulation than solid timber walls.
@@na-ev2zj insulation is a way of avoiding heat going through the walls and thus escaping to outside. So if it's cold outside and the heater is on, the heater will have to do less work if the walls are well insulated compared to no insulation, because most of the energy put into the air can't escape. If it's hot outside and the building has airconditioning then insulation will help you keep it cold inside. So yes, it does have a use
Wood is one of the best materials that you can use for insulation, if you didn't know that. And before you say that i don't know what i am talking about, i am from Austria
@@kingpoooooo I was just making a joke about the wording chosen by Matt Risinger...
Matt, I've been following your posts for a while. I run a small construction company in Canada and work predominantly with Europeans using European techniques. I was surprised to find out that you had never looked into these European methods, so I'm very happy about you posting this.
What I find shocking though, is how closed minded many in your audience are. They seemed very open to your suggestions for "innovative" North American materials and techniques, but are very closed minded about European design. I'm sure you had many questions similar to theirs, and many were answered in person in Europe. The Swiss (and Germans) don't just do something because they think it's cool, or outrageous, or just because they can. They think very logical about issues of sustainability, energy efficiency, building health, etc. Wouldn't you agree? How can you convey that to so many in your audience that question the Europeans sanity?
Keep up great work. Are you thinking of implementing some of those techniques? (If you ever get contacted by people wanting to build CLT in Canada, please send them our way. We've work with specialists (from Germany) with lots of experience under their belt.
Cheers. Hans
Full ack. People who think that this building has bad insulation, bad fire protection or air duct issues have no clue how we build houses in Switzerland and what regulations have to be followed. And the same people build houses that collapse in every hurricane.
I'm from Russia. We have some strange wood construction standards that have been incorrectly translated from US standards. Basically, they build as they know how, and in 90% of houses there is no ventilation. I myself want to take care of houses, please tell me a link to the standards and rules for European, Swedish wooden houses. Thank!
@@G00G00L I'm from Russia. We have some strange wood construction standards that have been incorrectly translated from US standards. Basically, they build as they know how, and in 90% of houses there is no ventilation. I myself want to take care of houses, please tell me a link to the standards and rules for European, Swedish wooden houses. Thank!
You couldn’t expect less from Switzerland!
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Immaculate job site! Obviously there is a great deal of pride and craftsmanship poured into this building.
The work ethic of the Swiss is a far cry from the crap you see in North America. There's no comparison.
Holy cow, filling with sand is awesome!
the major thing about this type of construction is that it combines what is renewable and relatively light with something long lasting, although energy intense. the trees grow, and can be planted again, and while they grow they provide oxygen and a multitude of other benefits to the environment for living creatures. genius!
i believe that original stone floors in many middle ages buildings had alternating layers of sand and rocks of varying sizes at the ground level, for similar effect and to provide a kind of "foundation pad" much like modern concrete slab foundations. so interesting to see the evolution of that idea in this building, and used in upper floors!
Huh, Finish walls, I thought they we're Swiss?
1$ inside the pun-jar. NOW!
Wwwaaaa waaaa wa waaaaaa
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this is what architecture should be. this is *ing gorgeous; throughout: physically, aesthetically, and design.
quality of Swiss products is 10000% trustable. I am not originally from Swiss, but after living here many years I say no 1 quality whatever they create ❤❤❤
Wonderful ~~~~ !!!! I'm Korean (South Korea) , I love this series... !!!
Artfully beautiful! Thanks for showing it. Cheers!
The sand filling in between the wooden floor elements - so much easier to remove then concrete in case of a repair or let's say implementing an idea of running an additional pipe or cable duct in the future. And so much simpler than mixing and pouring concrete. Good idea.
To date, 2,000 termites have given this video a thumbs up.
J omg😂😂
@J I'm not swiss so joke's on you funny guy.
Nick V 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Good one. Thumbs up from Switzerland. And yes: Swiss have suboptimal amount of humor built in at birth.
@@drtimbradbury So it's okay to rob nature of unique stone which isn't renewable as opposed to trees which are? Sure, that's brilliance. You might want to do a little reading about modern sourcing practices before making pronouncements that make you look more like your first sentence than others.
Gorgeous! Those ceilings are out of this world!
sand in the lattice floor seems like an awesome idea. Great way to add mass and sound proofing between floors.
Sand-filled floors have been more or less standard for ages here. The lattice instead of rows of beams is the innovation.
HenryLoenwind Im trying to understand how the sand works as a fire retarder and the assembly itself (architecture student just trying to grasp it) I haven't seen anything this interesting in NorthAmerica. It's a fascinating floor system to be sure.
I'm an european and I love this series, Thanks Matt
This is beautiful! Inspiring! Thanks Matt
Wow...never seen anything like that. Thanks for showing it.
You could do an entire episode on that floor... Maybe even a mini series
Only in Switzerland could you build such a building where money is no option, beautiful interior and I bet the workmanship was 200% accurate
It's to be the HQ of the company. It's meant to show off.
I‘m a civil Engineer in switzerland. And no, not everyone here got something like this. It‘s pretty expansiv, even for me! 😂
😂 the rule Nice but expensive allies almost universally everywhere.
02:43 that "cat litter" is actually mashed cellular concrete. The product is called "fermacell" and consists of a lightweight replacement for a concrete slab. On top of the mashed concrete are two 10mm gypsum boards tightly glued together with an optional sound insulating layer on the bottom. It can be compressed wood fibers or mineral wool.
That intro made me laugh, great video and hope you enjoyed your time off your local patch!
... I bet this would be excellent construction materials to build a recording studio out of.
The concete-block has some serious Heat-Battery funktion. Warming the Building in Winter and cooling it in Summer. Great Idea.
Matt, I absolutely admire your commitment to the best of the best practice of building construction and your curiosity towards the better construction methods out there. Your video like this enlights many viewers like me of what US hasn’t seen before, nor vetted yet by the codes.
CLT is starting to get momentum in US, particularly in the pacific northwest where I practice architecture. Code is being amended to allow for tall mass timber structure from this year. We will certainly see more fun and functional construction like this in US soon.
I also commented on your previous video recommending you to visit Japan, where “precut” technology is widely used in residential construction. Wood posts and beams are CNCed in the factory to have Japanese wood joineries. Only mallets are used to join them in the field (except for seismic brackets are screw attached).
I appreciate the direction of your channel where it is heading, to be the ambassador of those construction methods we’d better know, as architect and builder. And with the power of your voice, subscriber and follower, there is no better person than you (and Jordan and your team) to carry this on.
Really appreciate your channel (since many many years ago).
Olagonin Chancer As far as I know there are other Koho (method) such as “Kanamono Precut” that does use metal to join wood, similar to simpson ties in US. Insurance I don’t know. Maybe you have a point. In terms of your last question, you can help me figure out. Doesn’t matter I appreciate Matt’s work, and how much I learned from his channel.
Swiss quality is overwhelming when saw in person. No video can transmit the feeling of those fine materials. Also, see how clean the building site is. Not all countries have so well organized work. Good presentation, nice project.
Would you consider doing a video on how to create that ceiling in an existing (or new) home? Even without radiant heat, it is a very pretty structure, but it was quite difficult to see the details in this video. Thanks for all the great videos.
Love this series! Greetings from Switzerland, Rob
Hey Matt I'd love to see you do a series on Japanese architecture and building techniques and how they are used here.
Very interesting floor system, thanks for sharing Matt!
Thank you for mentioning the Architect 👍 Great work, great video!
Cool 😎 love it and love the amazing comments ...lol.
If this building is up for 300 years then it’s totally worth it. Even 500 years from now the wood can be repurposed if not allowed to rot.
Floor heating has been popular in Switzerland for a long time. We use a lot of re-usable energy.
Absolutely fantastic and so inspirational!
Your passion is truly contagious
"Riiiiiicolaaaaaa!"
sorry, could not resist.
great video, great building.
Great video, beautiful building.
Damn... that's awesome!
Incredibly beautiful.
Lots better than the osb crap our homes are built with 👍👍👍👍👍
Okay commentors that seem to hate this building method. Give me an example of a wall structure that is more environmentally friendly then this one. With similar R values. Let's say this building took X amount of acres of forest per sqft of space. You can replant that forest and have it fairly regrown in 15 years. This building should last 100 years maybe several hundred You can replace the wood that it used 6 times every 100 years, sequester carbon in the entire building in the mean time. Wood is 100 percent recyclable, it can be used as heating fuel, turned into OSB or particle board, mulch. Or you could re plane the wood and build another building from it in the future. The "sand" in the floors can also be reused in the future. The process to harvest the wood, say cutting them down, and transporting can be done by renewable energy. And all material require transport. Anyways, give me an example of a wall assembly.
I would question the sustainability of this construction method in large quantities. I kind of doubt you could grow trees fast enough to be churning out millions of these. Not to mention the expense. If I was extremely wealthy, I would love to build my house like this. Although R24 wouldn't be enough in my climate, so I'd need to sandwich some celluose in there somewhere.
Concrete core acts as thermal mass store, genius thinking, let alone fully recycled materials.
A modern concrete and metal Barndominium style. Far cheaper, faster build, scaleable, no trees cut.
@@trevorlambert4226 I dont think anything is really sustainable in large quantities.
@@hippo-potamus my house is made of concrete (ICF) I love it. I built it that way for a reason. But concrete ingredients have to be mined, which any form of mining has a large environmental impact, also it sounds crazy but they say the world is running out of sand, look up some documentaries on it, we are using faster then the world can produce it. Much like trees I suppose, and thirdly when concrete is mixed it produces high volumes of carbon (monoxide or dioxide?) So even concrete isn't sustainable in high volume. But we have invested so much in infrastructure and technology to build from concrete that we are able to build in quite large volume. We are pretty maxed out on our rate though. And I know ICF is a bad example, but I build my house out of it and the EPS is pretty bad to build with, there is still foam balls rolling around my house and yard and I built the house 5 years ago.
*Very smart floor design.* All the plumbing, cables and heating can be in that gravel floor sandwich.
It's faster and cheaper than running cables, tubes and pipes in different walls.
Unless you have to add an outlet down the road lol. But still a beautiful design.
you should visit Tamedia Office Building by Shigeru Ban Architects in centre of Zurich. 7 floor all wooden conctruction (structural timber only).
The way you started the overview reminded me of Gladiator, “are you not entertained?”
That building is the future of architecture. Take notes.
I feel like the buildings are so stout that tornadoe alley needs this type of building
Surprised they have only R24 walls. It is pretty common even in central Europe to have R40 walls and R60 roof. And it will be mandatory since 2020 in many EU countries.
Damn that is awesome! Very interesting and efficient design. I do wonder though if there is any form of vapour barrier, or if the wood sealer will be enough. Definitely a neat concept. A standard wall with batt insulation is like R12.
Great video and really nice house!
I'd love to see more on the finished building too
Congrats on 300,000. Over from R&R
The light sand might be a foam material made of recycled glass.Sometimes there is a material like that that is used when making roads.It is used instead of stone when the ground is sensitive to heavy weights.
„Healthy, energy efficient, beautiful, long lasting“ You just described Swiss, Austrian and German buildings. It’s not too important to have the biggest house with the biggest fake Chrystal chandelier.
We call it quality when my great grandson is the first person to worry about 1/7 of the roof tiles
Really cool Matt! 👍🏻👊🏻
Nice Matt & Jordan!!
Very cool...and looks great! Seems to be nearly what would be called a...bunker? lol
I worked with industrial insulation. That cat litter insulation is called perlite, it comes in sand form, baked on site till it pops like popcorn, then vacuume pumped to desired location.
Europe is the Mecca of building technologies and standards. Germany is a worth while trip to study the craft and learn new things.
Very awesome would love to see it in person when it's done!
Contact me if you ever come to switzerland. I live a 10 minute drive from there and know some of the employees from Küng. I'm sure I could arrange something.
Wow, awesome.
Great video!
Appreciate your sharing of information. Very curious about ventilation, cooling, as well as the electrical? Not a plug in sight. The buildings that I have seen with seemly construction simply nail the wire to the walls, talk about ugly, besides a commercial building, can't imagine it would not have conduit? I know they are 50 hz 220 volts, the building seems very isolated in terms of a path to ground, possibly incorporated into the flooring system?
I think he loves this building XD
Swiss perfection 😍
The 2x8 style floors was fairly common here in Seattle back in the day. Not many left since they are tearing down everything to build shitty, 'OSB everything' appartments...
Fast and cheap.
Jaime Rascon a.k.a. shity. Because they sure charge you for it when done!
That is a shame that the build quality and architecture of Seattle's new housing is absolute garbage, but the city is growing like crazy and does need a shit ton of new housing.
It's reversing now, house prices drops faster than anywhere in the nation right now. So in 10-15 years they'll be down to what they are actually worth...
this is patently false, they use plenty of MDF, hardibacker and PVC too :P
I'd love a house built like that, wowzer
Most CLT buildings in Switzerland , germany and austria apply insulation on the outside of the building and siding over that to protect the CLT panels and the insulation.
The “ you don’t need insulation “ thing by these companies is mostly for a selling point. To get a really good insulation value from a CLT house you would need about a 30 centimeter thick wall. this drives the cost up to a level that most people aren’t willing to pay and beside that you can achieve a waay better insulation value using a thinner clt wall with equal amounts of insulation on the outside .
Wow, beautiful building! Must be expensive though for all that wood
Switzerland, Austria and Germany can build. Much to learn
They've learned from italy.
For those interested, the building technology for walls is called Cross Laminated Timber.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-laminated_timber
Sand is the best for sound. Used to fill voids in cmu for the same effect. Quieter than grout cores.
i believe that since a lot of the wood is touching it then behaves like a larger piece, andthus is more fire resistant than some in the comments think. think about the difficulty of trying to light a 2x4 with a lighter, almost impossible
Although rare there are a few tornadoes a year in Switzerland and Germany. You will be amazed at how well these buildings stand up against f2 tornadoes.
Hey Matt, can you please add the yodel-y scenic montage to the intro to all your videos instead of the guitar riff intro you've had in the past!??! It's awesome.
Thanks so much
The sand method really sucks cause over time in high traffic areas the sand shifts and the floor becomes like a sponge. I've had to redo so many of these types of floor in Sweden. This method is no longer used here. But it sure does make the floor quieter. Not worth it though.
solid wood
A good argument has been made that concrete is more environmentally friendly than wood because young trees take so many years to uptake much carbon, and the average house takes a football field worth of trees to build. Plus concrete lasts 2x-3x as long, so the comparison is really between one concrete structure and 2 or 3 equivalent wood structures
That’s insane....😱
it IS a beautiful building
in saudi arabia we use the sand in floor from a long time more than 60 years ago . but we cover it with concrete and one lane of liquid asphalt to make it waterproof .... but if u use wood it will be wet ( cleaning floor , etc ..... )
Will you make a follow up video featuring a tour of the finished building?
What a nice intro.just a guy saying yolo with a majesric voice
I'd like to see an update with the finished building.
That is fucking awesome! I like that building..
Solid wood
LOL at 1:21 he puts a lot of emphasis into that phrase !!!!!! LOL
Do you have plans to make a video of the specific changes you would suggest to make to typical American construction standards after your trip?
I agree, followup videos on the upsides and downsides of these techniques after you've had time to do research would be nice, though I understand it's hard to get that sort of thing sponsored.
Please follow up with side by side cost/feature with US ideas.
@@myCloudWatcher How much did this building cost?