Framing Studs as Design
Search “exposed structure” in architecture coverage right now and the results are almost uniformly mass timber. A few examples: Fraser/Livingstone Architects left the structural timber frame exposed inside six flats in an Edinburgh mass-timber development, hoping the presence of CLT indoors would improve residents’ well-being. In this case the framing seamlessly transitions into the finished […]
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Wood: Making High-Performance Homes Palatable
Strip away the marketing and a high-performance house is a machine: heat pumps, solar arrays, continuous air barriers, triple-glazed everything. Builders are getting remarkably good at making these houses perform. What they haven’t solved is making them feel like somewhere you’d want to live. That’s where wood comes in. A recent North Shore project makes […]
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Imagine This in the Northeast
A mid-size Czech city just built multi-story rental housing out of timber, on a budget, on schedule, for the first time in the country’s history. The Northeast U.S. has been sitting on the resource base to do the same thing for decades. Nobody’s built it yet. The model. Žďár Wooden Housing, designed by Kuba & […]
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