Skellefteå, a small Swedish city with about 100 000 inhabitants situated just below the Arctic Circle, has a long history of timber building. Architects Robert Schmitz and Oskar Norelius from White Architects are making a monument to the city’s timber tradition, the Sara Cultural Centre, which will be one of the world’s tallest timber buildings.
As your family and your needs grow, your house starts to feel too tight.
We've been there ourselves...
This is why, a couple to years ago, we started to play with the idea of bringing to life a garden room.
What is a garden room?
...it's an extra room with the same qualities of the rooms of a high-end house (great insulation, great soundproofing, privacy, ...) that you can just place in your garden.
This summer we finally built one and it took us just 4 days!
This year, a total of 12 projects made it to the international finals of the Huts and Habitats competition, part of TAB (Tallinn Architecture Biennale).
Steampunk was the unanimous favorite of the jury right from the beginning.
To date, Steampunk it is the largest and most ambitious project in the world implemented using augmented reality… and it’s entirely made of wood.
Recently, we attend a seminar and exhibition on new Swedish wooden architecture.
As new construction technologies become more affordable and safe, this sector of the building industry seems to be booming.
We wanted to get more information on this... and so we interviewed someone who is dealing with wood architecture on a daily basis.
So you are working on a new housing project and you are wondering whether you should build it entirely on-site or you should take advantage of some sort of prefabricated construction method.
As soon as you look into prefab construction technologies, you realize there are 3 ways you can go about it:
How can you determine which one is the best for your project?
This article is all about that...
