Timber Typologies
If timber is to realise its potential, we must know what we mean when we say timber.
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Address acoustic challenges in mass timber through CLT
CDM Stravitec has created a Continuing Professional Development (CPD) course on using lightweight acoustic floating floors in combination with cross-laminated timber (CLT), exploring how these systems can address acoustic challenges in mass timber construction. This online course presents the airborne sound reduction and impact noise isolation of lightweight floating floor...
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Brent Cross Pavilion
Embracing larch and spruce both in its structure and frame, Brent Cross Pavilion was the first building constructed in the new 180-acre Brent Cross Town development. With exhibition, work and events spaces, all served by a public café, the new facility communicates the vision of the development and acts as...
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Regreening an unloved site
Hayhurst & Co have created a verdant, light-filled CLT home that uses space to maximal effect. Commissioned by the clients to design a fun and exciting home for their young family, London-based architects Hayhurst & Co drew on the greenery and natural history of the site to create a re-imagined,...
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A water tower with a heart of wood
In this reuse project by Tonkin Liu, a dilapidated water tower is transformed into an enchanting home by stabilizing the delicate steel frame with a strong timber core. Image © Dennis Pedersen: the renovated tower stands proudly overlooking the fields. The steel-framed water tower, which had originally been used on...
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Green House
Set on a backland plot in the Clyde Circus Conservation Area in Tottenham, Hayhurst & Co’s design for Green House draws on the natural history and verdant character of its location.
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A practice that puts sustainability at the heart of everything
Designing buildings that work for people and planet - that is Architype's ethos. This pioneering architecture practice - and TDUK member - has always championed sustainability. From its early days of self-build houses in the 1990s to its major Passivhaus projects today, Architype has thought long and hard about the...
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A new life for an old factory
How a lightweight timber frame and engineering know-how turned the Gramophone Works into the building it was always meant to be. In its long and varied history, it has been the headquarters of Sanderson Fabrics and British independent record label Saga Records. Today, The Gramophone Works is a landmark commercial...
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How do you turn an infill car park into beautiful housing?
Edward Williams Architects’ first CLT project has transformed an underused car park into a welcoming mews-style development. Directors Laura Carrara-Cagni and Edward Williams explain how they went about it. A stylish landscaped housing scheme now sits on what was once a World War II bomb site. This is Stratford Courtyard...
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Moisture-proof CLT construction without a full temporary shelter
The publication Moisture-proof CLT construction without a full temporary shelter provides guidance on how to handle CLT elements when building without a full shelter. It is intended to help project planners and builders achieve an industrial and dampproof CLT build.
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