Incorporating Wood Material into Residential Structure Design
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Sponsored by reThink Wood
Learning Objectives:
- List at least three innovative design strategies that can be used to expand the options for incorporating wood materials into home remodels and new construction.
- Discuss ways that wood materials deliver a feel for nature through thoughtful design.
- Describe the ways that wood can be combined with other materials, including glass, concrete, and steel, to meet specific design objectives.
- Explain the origins of charring cedar and its benefits as a durable, sustainable technique.
Credits:
This course can be self-reported to the AIBC, as per their CE Guidelines.
As an IACET Accredited Provider, BNP Media offers IACET CEUs for its learning events that comply with the ANSI/IACET Continuing Education and Training Standard.
This course is approved as a Structured Course
This course can be self-reported to the AANB, as per their CE Guidelines
Approved for structured learning
Approved for Core Learning
This course can be self-reported to the NLAA
Course may qualify for Learning Hours with NWTAA
Course eligible for OAA Learning Hours
This course is approved as a core course
This course can be self-reported for Learning Units to the Architectural Institute of British Columbia
This course is approved as a Structured Course
This course can be self-reported to the AANB, as per their CE Guidelines
Approved for structured learning
Approved for Core Learning
This course can be self-reported to the NLAA
Course may qualify for Learning Hours with NWTAA
Course eligible for OAA Learning Hours
This course is approved as a core course
This course can be self-reported for Learning Units to the Architectural Institute of British Columbia
Few architectural design problems are as tricky as adding to a building that is rigorously symmetrical. If not sensitively conceived and carefully executed, an expansion can compromise the integrity and compositional balance of the original. But such was the challenge faced by Tokyo-based Kengo Kuma for his first commission in the United States: a new wing for an almost temple-like mid-century modern house in New Canaan, Connecticut.
An empty-nester couple desired a modest structure that pays sincere deference to its forest site on the Door Peninsula of eastern Wisconsin.
For his firm's first project, Swiss architect Benjamin Krampulz of Bkarch gave new meaning to a barn raising. A pair of avid cross-country skiers asked the architect to convert an 80-year-old livestock barn—once the home of sheep, cattle, and mounds of hay—into a modern getaway for themselves and guests.
Perspective house of the month: On a wooded site in Deephaven, Minnesota, Snow Kreilich Architects conceived a geometric cedar-clad retreat overlooking Lake Minnetonka.
The clients sought a house that was durable, sustainable, and offered privacy in an urban environment. They originally wanted to convert an existing warehouse into a house but decided that to achieve their programmatic goals, it would be easier to build an entirely new house.
The architects reimagined the contemporary rowhouse through this renovation and expansion of an 1899 wood-frame house that had been stripped of detail and left in disrepair.
Originally published in June 2017