28 May 2009 |
Announcements, Education, Educational, Materials, Residential
Yale School of Art Gallery and Sidwell Friends Middle School
photos © Peter Aaron/Esto (left) and © Halkin Photography LLC (right)
It was announced last month that the Yale University School of Art Gallery and Sidwell Friends Middle School have received 2008 Western Red Cedar Architectural Design Awards, presented by The Western Red Cedar Lumber Association and The Cedar Shake and Shingle Bureau.
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4 February 2009 |
Announcements, Projects, Residential
LivingHome hybrid assembly diagram
After its debut at the International Builders Show in Las Vegas last month, the off-site fabricated home we designed for LivingHomes will be on display at the TED Conference in Long Beach. Designed to achieve LEED-Platinum certification, the two-story Kohler LivingHome features furnishings, materials, products and technologies that showcase the best in high design and technology with a low ecological footprint. Following the TED conference, the show home will remain open for public viewing from February 8 to February 21, 2009.
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2 February 2009 |
Announcements, Projects, Residential
Special No 9 House, Make It Right Foundation, photo © John Williams Architects
In January we paid a visit to Melba and Baxter Barnes, the owners of KieranTimberlake's first completed Make It Right home in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans.
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12 January 2009 |
Announcements, Offsite Fabrication, Residential
KieranTimberlake has teamed up with LivingHomes, Profile Structures, and Color Design Art to create a modular show home for Builder magazine. The home will be on display at the 2009 International Builders' Show in Las Vegas, January 20-23. You can take a virtual tour of the project on the Builder website.
Boyce Thompson, Builder magazine's editorial director, writes:
Next week, four semi-trailers will leave a factory in Southern California carrying the modules and panels that make up our show home for this year's International Builders' Show in Las Vegas. The convoy will idle across the street in a parking lot, waiting for the convention floor to open for exhibitors. Then, when the doors roll up at 12:01 a.m. on the morning of the 14th, crews will race the components to the floor and begin a mad, five-day race to ready the home for visitors.
If you are going to the IBS this year, check out the Builder LivingHome. We've been working for more than a year on this super-sustainable "mod" home. The experience of navigating the nascent modular industry to line up a builder, an architect, a factory, and suppliers is an interesting story in itself. But it is sure to be eclipsed by the home itself, which speaks volumes about the trends that are likely to preoccupy builders for the next several decades. Continue reading...
3 December 2008 |
Materials, Offsite Fabrication, Research, Residential
Cellophane House, photo © KieranTimberlake
In an earlier post we described the initial stages of the Cellophane House disassembly. Since then, we have successfully lowered all of the chunks to the ground and have been disassembling and organizing the parts from each chunk in preparation for loading onto flatbed trucks. Jason Niebish and Elizabeth Kahley have been on site overseeing the disassembly effort for KieranTimberlake. They have collectively labeled the parts, transferred gussets from cardboard boxes to plastic crates and palletized parts in preparation for fork lifting to flatbed trucks.
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