Timber frame
An overview of projects, products and exclusive articles about timber frame
Project • By Austin Maynard Architects • Private Houses
Barrow House
The Barrow extension appears as an arrangement of timber boxes, each independently rotated and subjected to varying amounts of extruding and manipulating forces. These separate actions result in a variety of shapes, which united, create an interior of differing volumes and organizations, providing an interesting double story addition to this weatherboard house.
The extension challenges the traditional nature of timber construction. Normally light- weight and fragile, added wall thickness to different areas results in a structure with a fluctuating sense of mass. The dynamic and varying nature of these environments is further enhanced by differing window arrangements and framing techniques. Frequently the windows are setback within the fr... More
Project • By Boyd Cody Architects • Private Houses
Summerhill House
Two aspects of this field interested us, the tall Hawthorn hedge that divided it and the uninterrupted views that opened up beyond the hedge, west to the surrounding landscape. Our clients needed a large house but they were interested in how to be architecturally restrained within a rural context. They also saw divisions in their home life between entertaining, working, sleeping and relaxing. The design of the house and site addresses those needs.
The house consists of two distinctive slipped parallel forms; a more traditional long pitched slate clad timber framed ‘house’ which contains the main living rooms and a lower rendered concrete block bedroom wing. One form is double height and black, the other white and single storey; one is... More
Project • By Waugh Thistleton Architects • Housing
Stadthaus
Introduction
Designed in collaboration between architects Waugh Thistleton, structural engineers Techniker, and timber panel manufacturer KLH, Stadthaus, a nine-storey residential building in Hackney, London, is thought to be the tallest timber residential structure in the world.
Stadthaus is the first high density housing building to be built from pre-fabricated cross-laminated timber panels. It is the first building in the world of this height to construct not only load-bearing walls and floor slabs but also stair and lift cores entirely from timwber.
Waugh Thistleton are committed to reducing the environmental impact of architecture. In the endeavour to build buildings that reduce our impact on the planet we see it as vital not only t... More
Sliding House
A NEW HOUSE FOR A RURAL SITE UNDER A BIG SKY...
The brief was a self-build house to retire to in order to grow food, entertain and enjoy the landscape. The site offered a combination of rolling England and agricultural Holland, restrained by stringent local Planning parameters for rural development. A genuine appreciation of vernacular farm buildings shared by architect and client/builder led to a manipulation of the local timber framed and clad 'shed' idiom.
The outcome is three conventional building forms with unconventional detailing, radical performance, and a big surprise. A linear building of apparent simplicity is sliced into three programmes; house, garage and annexe. The garage is pulled off axis to create a courtyard between... More
Project • By Architectenweb Magazine • Offices
Eemsmondgebouw
The interweaving composite panels dominate the new façade of the Eemsmond building in Delfzijl. The composite panels have a laminated insert of a chameleon foil with alternating angles. The panels change colour depending on the time of day.
The front and rear facades were completely demolished and replaced by a prefabricated timber framed wall during the redevelopment of the Eemsmond building. Shelves and spacers in the front of the façade pull the flat composite plates into a curved sinusoidal shape. The plates are glass fiber reinforced polyester and are produced by vacuum injection.
Firstly a layer of fibre is covered with foil and layed onto a mould. A vacuum is created between the foil and the mould and filled with resin. T... More