Accoya planks
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Project • By WNDR Architecture Design Inc. • Private Houses
Kerrisdale Gables
This custom home is a manifestation of the client’s lifestyle, travels, and collections. The home modernizes the Kerrisdale neighbourhood vernacular of post war bungalows and an underwhelming replication of the Craftsman style home. Clad in a sophisticated black stained wood following the angle of the stacked gables the home sits quietly on a suburban street lined with mature maple trees on the west side of Vancouver.
Jesse Laver
Interior spaces are organized to entertain – an unobstructed living spaces, leading out to a covered patio, onto the rear yard that is anchored by a three-car garage facing the lane. The second storey houses the sleeping quarters and this form is accentuated as a cantilevered gable along the rear... More
News • News • 3 Mar 2022
Unknown Architects design a unique home nestled into the dune landscape of the Wadden Islands (NL)
Nestled into the unique dune landscape of Terschelling, one of the Wadden Islands in the Netherlands, this house by Unknown Architects is both modest and expressive. Drawing inspiration from the surrounding holiday homes, the house appears from a distance as a single-storey building with an asymmetrical roof. Closer up, a lower ground floor becomes visible.
MWA Hart Nibbrig
The house comprises three key elements: a solid concrete base, a panoramic window that connects the ground floor to the dune landscape, and an asymmetrical timber roof. To reduce construction time and impact on the site, much of the house was prefabricated.
The first project featuring cross-laminated construction on Terschelling the ground floor and ro... More
Product • By Zwarthout l Shou Sugi Ban • Marugame
Marugame
This beautiful, charred wood has a characteristic and equally divided pattern. The silvery glow of the charred layer has a different look depending on the angle of the sunlight. The hard charred layer makes Marugame ideal as a sustainable cladding for roofs and facades. Marugame is also very suitable as an attractive eye- catcher in a special interior.
The wood used for Marugame is Accoya® of the Pinus Radiata tree, a fast-growing pine species. The wood is modified through a non-toxic acetylation process. Accoya® is labelled with durability class 1 and other quality certifications (i.a. KOMO, RAL, BBA, WDMA), and a cradle-to- cradle gold certification. The wood has a lifespan of at least 50 years above ground, and 25 years... More