The Timber Wall

Looks complicated. It is actually simple and that is its elegance. The joinery involved in this frame is all traditional mortise and tenon, we have simply reoriented the typical meeting points of roof to wall. The price is in line with other frames of similar square footage.

We developed this design as a demonstration of several key design points when planning custom frames for our clients. We’ve realized that this frame has virtues enough to be offered as is. The points that the design conveys are:

1. Boxes are efficient to build and don’t have to be boring. Something as simple as turning a roof line or extending a post height can offer you a highly dynamic shelter.
2. Solar design has to be an integral part of how we design and locate our shelters, this is the cornerstone of sustainable shelter building. With correct orientation to the suns over head passage and efficient insulating walls on the north, this building is ideally suited to passive solar fundamentals.
3. Optimal capture of rain and funneling, for rain water catchment systems.
4. All the fundamentals of appealing design are available in this structure: good interior to exterior sight lines, layering of spaces, potential for hidden alcoves, visual stability of the structure and a genuineness, an honesty of purpose.
5. Most of all, the interaction an occupant would experience with the immediate external environment while still being sheltered, would be awesome. Imagine the rain, sunsets and rises.

Potential stand alone uses are: Public or Private Pavilion, Green House, Workshop or Studio, Pool House, Guest House, Small Homestead. The frame could also be slightly modified to form an addition to an existing structure. If placed on a south facing wall its high solar gain could be used to augment current heating systems greatly reducing the demand on grid or fossil fuel systems.

This Frame could also be modified to achieve a full or half second storey doubling the square footage, for much less than doubling the cost.

As with all our models full plans are available to the ambitious DIY, plans include full joinery details, construction specifics and permit necessary stuff like wall sections. Click!

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