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

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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?

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