The First Circular High-Rise Buildings in Germany

Living spaces for everyone: Built above a shared underground car park, the Woodscrapers comprise 106 apartments with around 8,000 m² of usable floor area. 45% of the apartments are publicly subsidised, while 102 are fully accessible. The Woodscrapers thus create affordable, inclusive housing for people of different generations and life situations. Shared rooftop terraces, generous open spaces and a café on the ground floor invite people to meet and connect. Green roofs and integrated nesting boxes create new habitats for wildlife while improving the microclimate within the neighbourhood.

Architecture with responsibility: Every decision we make is guided by one central question: How can we create buildings that retain their value for decades to come? In circular construction, we use materials in ways that allow them to remain in use for as long as possible, be reused or returned to new material cycles. At the Woodscrapers, flexible floor plans and a durable, demountable building envelope also allow for different forms of living and accommodate future changes in use.

A vision becomes reality: We laid the foundations for the Woodscrapers as early as 2015. Together with specialist planners, researchers and academic partners, we developed the idea of a circular high-rise building for the urban environment. The concept was further developed through two projects supported by the German Federal Environmental Foundation (DBU). Our vision was first presented to the public at Bellevue Palace, where a 1:1 model was exhibited in June 2024. Construction began the same year, with completion scheduled for 2027.