CLT or Cross Laminated Wood, is the new steel of the 21st century. It is a wood panel product made from gluing together layers of solid-sawn lumber. Each layer of boards is usually oriented perpendicular to adjacent layers and glued on the wide faces of each board, usually in a symmetric way so that the outer layers have the same orientation. This building acts as a testimony of its capacities.

The whole composition and logic of the building follows its structural geometry. The building is composed of many CLT shear walls that gradually become thinner with each floor as the loads diminish but also in plan since each floor is offseted inward in relation to the floor under it. This allows a linear exterior terrace that connects the whole building and also large openings of light created by the negative space of the shear walls. 

The CLT is self structural and does not need any cores to hold the building, to bear witness of that the cores (elevators and utilities) are isolated on the side of building.