Maximum Size Limit for a Wooden-and-Bamboo Neo-Ziggurat

There is a concern that's been brought up only recently--steel and concrete buildings are environmentally wasteful. In further clarification, they waste away too much greenhouse gases. And considering how many steel-and-concrete skyscrapers currently exist worldwide, that is incredibly damning. Which is why some people are nowadays to the idea of a "plyscraper"--a structure made primarily of cross-laminated timber (CLT), which, unlike steel and concrete, stores carbon dioxide.

However, the focus of this question is the one recurring foe of any high-rise structure--gravity. Draw it too tall, and the force to end all forces would crush the structure down, which is why Shimizu won't be using conventional materials when they build their Mega-City Pyramid.

The shape of a building also plays a factor because of weight distribution. Shimizu was on track with a pyramid shape, as the far wider base makes the overall structure more stable, and most archaeologists can agree that the massive Tower of Babel, if it existed, wouldn't be a tower but a ziggurat, which looks different from a pyramid but still has the same principle.

So in the event of building a ziggurat out of both CLT and bamboo, what is the biggest (in regards to base width and height) that it can be without crushing under the force of gravity?

posted almost 5 years ago

JohnWDailey‭

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