Wooden construction
An overview of projects, products and exclusive articles about wooden construction
Project • By LINK Arkitektur • Primary Schools
Hoppet preeschool
The Hoppet construction and innovation project aims to set new sustainability standards in the industry. The preschool has successfully achieved a 70% reduction in its climate impact.
Located in Hisings Backa, Gothenburg, the Hoppet preschool is the first building completed under the city's construction and innovation initiative. The project aims to inspire the industry towards more sustainable, fossil-free practices.
Felix Gerlach
Sustainable Architecture through Design and Low Climate Impact
In this project, every design decision was evaluated based on its environmental impact, guiding the overall approach. We also addressed ecological challenges through innovative design, creating a harmonious relationship between aesthetics and... More
Project • By Itten+Brechbühl AG • Sports Centres
Sporthallenprovisorium Gloriarank
In the centre of Zurich, Switzerland, a prefabricated three-storey wooden building is providing a temporary sports facility for the University of Zurich (UZH). Designed by Swiss architectural practice Itten+Brechbühl AG (IB), the Sporthallenprovisorium Gloriarank (temporary sports hall Gloriarank) has a scheduled lifespan of ten years. The utilitarian building exudes warmth, its elegant appearance blending seamlessly into the urban fabric.
Completed in 2022 and located in the Gloriarank area of UZH, the building will serve as an interim solution during the development of Forum UZH, a new education and research centre. To complete the Forum project, it was necessary to remove UZH’s existing sports halls. A significant part o... More
News • News • 23 Oct 2024
Watchtower Einderheide by NEXT architects longlisted for Archello Awards 2024 Small Project of the Year
Archello Awards 2024 has revealed its longlist for its projects of the year categories. The longlists celebrate the very best building products, architecture projects and firms selected from over 1,000 entries for the second edition of Archello's annual awards program.
Watchtower Einderheide: longlisted for Small Project of the Year
Karl Banski
Amsterdam-based architecture office NEXT Architects designed a 26-meter-tall watchtower in Bergeijk, Netherlands, offering visitors extensive views and experience of the surrounding forest. The structure also provides a habitat for different bat species present in the area. While the tower takes a modest form, the allure lies in its construction details which are revealed via curvi... More
Project • By Office ParkScheerbarth • Offices
Haus 2+
Haus 2+ is a modern and sustainable timber infill that redefines the entrance to Holzmarkt 25, a cooperative-led urban cultural quarter on the banks of the river Spree in Berlin’s Friedrichshain district. Designed by Office ParkScheerbarth, a Berlin-based practice for architecture and urban planning, Haus 2+ is the first all-timber building in Holzmarkt 25.
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Holzmarkt 25
Once a timber market, the Holzmarkt area later became a border zone for East Germany, and, after German reunification, a vacant brownfield site. From 2003, it was home to Bar25, the renowned open-air techno club. Following Bar25's closure in 2010, its founders and regulars formed cooperatives to preserve the area from commercial development. Thro... More
Project • By DAMAST architects • Offices
Rooswijck 5, Amsterdam
Rooswijck 5 is a flexible, multi-tenant mass timber office building in Buitenveldert, a southern district of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Designed by Dutch architectural studio DAMAST architects, this low-carbon, adaptable, and circular wooden construction draws from the functionalist ideals of modernism, including a strong emphasis on light, air, and space, rational planning, and structural clarity. The building’s design combines historical awareness with forward-looking sustainability.
DAMAST architects
A designed influenced by Amsterdam’s 1935 Algemeen Uitbreidingsplan
Rooswijck 5 stands within the uniform street grid defined by the 1935 Algemeen Uitbreidingsplan (General Expansion Plan). A framework for Amsterd... More
News • News • 8 May 2023
Form4 Architecture designs a mass timber office building for Stanford Research Park, California
San Francisco-based firm Form4 Architecture, renowned for its Bay Area tech space designs, was awarded local entitlement for a new cutting-edge sustainable office building in Stanford Research Park, Palo Alto, California. The two-storey, 52000 sqft structure is notable for its scale as one of the first-of-its-kind in Silicon Valley to be built in mass-timber construction.
Rendering courtesy of Form4 Architecture
In response to its natural setting, the structure embraces nature through each design element including its wooden and glass architecture and dynamic roof form reflecting the shape of birds’ wings. Architect John Marx, AIA, Chief Artistic Officer of Form4 Architecture, notes, "We call the building Verdant Sanctuary b... More
News • News • 30 Mar 2023
Grau Architects craft a minimal wooden pavilion that pays homage to Japanese tea houses in Czechia
Set amidst lush riparian trees on a piece of land overlooking the Hrabinka lake in Czechia, the tea house pavilion is an intervention in public spaces designed as a part of the Mood for Wood International Workshop, crafted by Slovakian architecture firm Grau Architects.
Matej Hakár
The 9-square metre pavilion comprising a simple material palette of birch plywood and geotextiles reflects the architecture of traditional Japanese tea houses with a hint of contemporary elements.
Matej Hakár
Grau Architects
The pavilion features a minimal, open construction that sits in harmony with the surrounding environment, immersing one in views, sounds and movements of nature.
Matej Hakár
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News • News • 22 Mar 2023
KMR rethinks wooden residential construction with metal sheet façade and plywood louvres in Japan
Surrounded by rice paddy fields and rural scenery with farmhouses dispersed throughout the countryside, this residential project designed by KMR architects takes shape in Gunma prefecture of Takasaki region, Japan.
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KMR・Architects
The structure comprises three simple sections. The building's interior features a private room with a smaller plan, while the exterior is open to the outside and creates a larger floor area. Despite the restrictions on floor space, the renovation adopts a generous architectural gesture that fills the entire site.
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usagitocamera
The configuration groups living functions in the centre of the interior after a flexible transformation with the aim of fut... More
News • News • 14 Mar 2023
Feld72 establishes a dialogue with the existing via a holistic, ecological kindergarten extension
In South Tyrol, Italy, Feld72 architects devised a seamless expansion of a kindergarten in Lagundo. The new extension links the northeastern part of the complex, originally designed in 1976 by architect Gutweniger Willy.
David Schreyer
Following the dialogue of the existing flat and pitched roofs, the new design proposes a two-storey gabled roof structure and a two-storey flat-roofed building. Constructed as a glue-free solid wood structure with wooden facades and green roofs, the design explores a holistic and ecological approach.
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David Schreyer
The mass and texture of the solid wood walls create an ambient indoor environment facilitating a pleasant learning experience. Another sig... More
News • News • 27 Feb 2023
MWArchitekten converts a single-family home into a multigenerational wooden house
Marvellously located within a historically developed town structure on a hillside overlooking Lake Constance and the Alps in the Rhine valley, the project involves the remodelling and expansion of a single-family home by MWArchitekten.
Adolf Bereuter
Deriving from local architecture characterized by a solid plastered base with a distinct wooden cubature with windows and openings on top, the architects streamline the existing building while enhancing the location's identity.
Adolf Bereuter
MWArchitekten
MWArchitekten
Architecturally, a natural fir shell with a circumferential dress offers a uniform appearance. The area between this shell and the existing structure creates a strong visual and practi... More
News • News • 8 Jan 2023
BUREAU creates a cross-cultural sculptural respite for artists and wanderers in the French woods
Set amidst the woods of Sergy, France, architectural firm BUREAU crafts Therese, an organic sculpture and a temporary shelter for artists. The work of Swiss novelist Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz serves as an inspiration for the design, a quaint architectural being in the form of a boulder fostering wanderers and nature lovers. The narrative continues, evolving into a brief series with the emergence of Thérèse.
Dylan Perrenoud
The modest structure is perceptible through the expanding trees, but the wooden exterior forms the first stage of the design process. The wooden interiors feature two wooden benches and a table for the travellers to use as seating and places to set up their belongings.
Dylan Perrenoud
The p... More
News • News • 10 Nov 2022
Urban Power designs a sustainable wooden-framed extension to the International People’s College
Urban Power designed the extension of the International People’s College (IPC), a place for international students to learn, interact and exchange ideas as a part of Danish Folk high school culture.
Rune Veile
The limited site area is used to its full potential by innovating technological and spatial solutions. Functionally hosting new teaching rooms and a focal space for social events, the structure comprises two parts- a hidden area underneath the green landscape and a grand UN- Hall building.
Rune Veile
Providing a 360° view of the surrounding park, the hall features openable doors that expand into the surroundings, enabling outdoor sessions. The adaptability of the events hall is further enhanced thro... More
News • News • 8 Sep 2022
Dunkelschwarz rethinks nets and hammocks as flexible seating counterparts in an Alpine House
Located on the outskirts of Salzburg, Austria, Haus L designed by local architecture firm Dunkelschwarz, showcases a modern approach toward sustainable timber construction. The 292sqm house reflects the characteristics and form of the surrounding residential buildings.
Markus Rohrbacher Fotografie
The design of the house evolved along the client’s requirements of privacy, openness and a seamless transition between the outside and inside. In response to the client’s privacy concerns, a canopied entrance and parking separate the house from the adjoining street.
Markus Rohrbacher Fotografie
Accessible from the living area, an intimate courtyard is formed between the entrance and the house and is overlooked by th... More
News • News • 17 Aug 2022
Archstudio revitalizes a rural house in Beijing’s suburbs with recycled wooden construction
Located in a typical Chinese village on the outskirts of Beijing, ‘Mixed house’ designed by Archstudio, is a transformation of a courtyard house into a holiday retreat. The project seeks to build anew while retaining the essence and character of the old, built landscape of the village.
Jin Weiqi
The original house had two pitched-roof buildings, two courtyards and several flat-roof volumes. While the north wing has been retained with certain modifications owing to its frequent use and decent structural condition, the south wing had to be conserved and renovated owing to its historical value. Other ancillary volumes for temporary use were dismantled completely.
Jin Weiqi
Undulating wooden construct... More
Project • By HOLLEGHA arquitectos • Apartments
Height Extension
The project consisted of dismantling the roof of a three-storey building, with three apartments per floor, and replacing it with a new volume that contains the enlargement of two of the apartments on the top floor, a total of 97m2 plus 54m2 of terraces.
Pablo Casares
The construction was made of wood to facilitate the process and minimize weight. In fact, despite adding a floor, the total weight was reduced and thus doesn´t add load to a somewhat delicate building of the 1940ies, with a protected façade due to its historical value. It was possible to complete the works in 8 months and without moving the inhabitants of the 3rd floor.
The new top floor, whose shape is a result of the lighting angles required for the lower... More