Burned wood

From SinglePoint Design Build: “This project consisted of a full exterior removal and replacement of the siding, windows, doors, and roof.  In so, the Architects OXB Studio, re-imagined the look of the home by changing the siding materials, creating privacy for the clients at their front entry, and making the expansive decks more usable.  We added some beautiful cedar ceiling cladding on the interior as well as a full home solar with Tesla batteries. The Shou-sugi-ban siding is our favorite detail. While the modern details were extremely important, waterproofing this home was of upmost importance given its proximity to the San Francisco Bay and the winds in this location.  We used top of the line waterproofing professi... More

The project was designed by Studio Lark and built by Patrick Moore Construction using our Shou Sugi Ban – Gendai.  The entire house was renewed and a room addition built, with proper consideration of site and materials.  Photos courtesy of Matt Marcinkowski.   https://nakamotoforestry.com/portfolio/s-residence-kirkwood-mo-gendai/   Product: Gendai 1×6 ShiplapFinish: AmberApplication: Residential – ExteriorSF: 700SFDesigner: Studio LarkBuilder: Patrick Moore ConstructionDate: December 2016 Location: Kirkwood, MO More

The project was designed and built in-house by Ten Thousand Waves, with our yakisugi – Suyaki & Pika-Pika used in various locations with multiple finishes to achieve a traditional Japanese aesthetic.   https://nakamotoforestry.com/portfolio/ten-thousand-waves-japanese-spa-resort-santa-fe-nm-suyaki-pika-pika/  Product: Suyaki 1×6 select grade shiplapPrefinish: Suyaki: Black | Pika-Pika: NaturalApplication: Commercial – Interior & ExteriorSF: 1800SFDesigner: Ten Thousand WavesBuilder: Ten Thousand WavesDate: March 2017Location: Santa Fe, NM More

The project was a new residential build for a couple that lived in Japan and settled in the Bay Area. They selected our Shou Sugi Ban (Yakisugi) – Gendai with hybrid oil Black color prefinish.   https://nakamotoforestry.com/portfolio/m-residence-orinda-ca-gendai/  Product: Gendai 1×6 select grade shiplapPrefinish: Hybrid oil, BlackApplication: Residential – ExteriorSF: 900SFDesigner: N/ABuilder: N/ADate: December 2016 More

A cave-like shadow and a warm home that has been reconsidered to the extent of the design Building a House in TokyoI never thought that we would be building our house in Tokyo. When my son was about to turn four years old, my wife asked me, “What about our house? I asked.   We had bought a condominium in Hiroshima a few years before and had gotten used to living in a rented house in Tokyo.   Land in Tokyo is expensive, and I thought I would never own a house in Tokyo, nor did I imagine staying in Tokyo for a long time, but with a word from my wife, the reality of building a house in Tokyo suddenly came to me one day. After that day, I began to spend my days and nights searching for sites on the Internet. I have design... More

Cordoba 223 was built in 1953 and abandoned in 1986. Since its original design, it was conceived as a three-level residential building with 6 rowhouses and 6 apartments allocated in two different buildings.   This intervention presented great complexity as many different types of work had to be carried out. We had to build a new foundation as well as the main structural elements due to the most important earthquakes which affected the city (1985, 2017). An abandoned building gained a new life, through 15 new apartments redistributed through the side patio and two retail shops at street level, this new configuration was the greatest challenge by increasing the livable area but preserving the essence of the original building, the strat... More

On the hillside of the Magical Town of Valle de Bravo, a restful enclave popular among city dwellers only a 140km drive from Mexico City, we can find Casa Di Dox. 13,000 sqft of a very modern avant-garde architecture built with local materials.   The design bets on intersecting volumes prioritized by dimension and finished by optimally leveraging the natural slope of the site, reflected on the Architectural brief.   We triedto point everything inside out with a focal point in the epicenter of the central tower and main stairs that will guide us round the building, also  accommodating for the different natural levels of the lot. This was all formulated using a structure of exposed concrete and steel.     We us... More

Extension of a single house in burned wood Shou Sugi Ban. Design of three rooms spread over three levels. This extension takes place on an old building cut from the house already by a pedestrian dead end. The two constructions are connected by a polycarbonate walkway on the first floor. Once the existing frame is removed, the extension is built in a wooden frame with a two-slate roof. The floors of the three levels are made of fir wood joist.   The facades are made of cladding of RAL 9005 corrugated metal sheets for the ground floor and of Douglas fir wood planks for the other two floors. The blades are burnt thanks to the Japanese technique of shou-sugi-ban which naturally protects the wood by charring. By burning the wooden slats... More

El Toldo Azul is an artisan ice cream factory that operates in a small shop in the El Golf neighborhood.   The proportions of the premises —originally a garage 2.5 meters wide— forced us to think of the project as a succession of rooms, organized behind a facade. This was clad in burned wood, using the japanese technique of the 'Shou Sugi Ban'.   DetailsProject size - 30 m2 Completion date - 2015 Building levels  - 1 More

Unique single-family house is built by three independent solids that merge into one whole. Each coated / covered with a different skin, contrasting with each other. BURNED WOOD - GRAPHICS - LINEAR COARSE METAL SHEET. Three longitudinal tubes (including central one which is humped) slightly shifted, create the impression of a dynamic connection. The entire outer cladding penetrates inside with its textures and textures, cutting out 3 independent and yet interfused aesthetic-functional spaces (plasticity of external penetration into the interior is very important to us). The interior penetrates through the light that is let in, creating a view through. We see from the street the beauty of the forest lake at the foot of descending terraces of... More

The creative union of studios Formafatal and Machar & Teichmanwas given a chance to design the mysterious Moon club, located in a vibrant Prague city area of the Dlouhá street.The newly opened club brings a brand-new and original view of the interior design in this city area. Clients’ vision was to create an interior with details that would be on a significantly higher level compared to other enterprises on the same wave.The space of the club, which used to serve asa bank administration in the past, connects the central hall with a glass roofing. The element of the inner yard was one of the challenges of the spatial solution as well as the technical aspect of the acoustics which was given great attention. Acoustic measures, such as doub... More

On a hill in a pine forest, lost, among and in between trees, cozy and quiet, intimate and adventurous, moderne and eco-friendly the surrounding nature has shaped the Treehouse. Cyril folliot Located on a sandy ground, the treehouse was design as a light structure. Raised between 1 and 3 meters hight , deep screw piles elevate the house whilst preserving the the surrounding pine roots. Cyril folliot Shaped as a rectangular volume of burned wood carved by the trees as well as the light, the solid is composed by voids, the windows. Cyril folliot The views from Treehouse are defined precisely by materiality so that the forest seems to enter the house. In its center, in the patio , a suspended opened fishtank, leaving the rest... More

The new visitor points for Naturpark Amager activates a unique landscape through clear storytelling and a subtle architecture underlining nature qualities, activities and communities. A series of new visitor points ensure visual links throughout the park and make the protected landscape more accessible to its visitors. The landmark design creates an easily recognizable architecture that establishes a strong identity firmly anchored in the context. Each of the  visitor points are located in a transformation pivot - from urban condition to nature or from land to water. The transformation from one condition to the other frames the landscape and creates a new experience of nature by breaking down its enormous scale into smaller spaces and... More