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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13 November 2008 |
Materials, Offsite Fabrication, Research, Residential
Cellophane House, photo © Peter Aaron/Esto
Cellophane House was designed for ease of assembly, disassembly and reassembly. With the conclusion of the Home Delivery show at The Museum of Modern Art on October 26, the next phase of our experiment is beginning. Our intention is to disassemble and rebuild the house on a new location, helping to offset the millions of tons of construction and demolition debris generated in the United States each year.
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2 October 2008 |
Materials, Projects, Research, Residential
© Peter Aaron/Esto
Can we create a material that combines the idealized functions of a building envelope into a single product?
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18 September 2008 |
Materials, Residential
Model, Garden Prototype
In July 2007, KieranTimberlake was selected by Brad Pitt's Make It Right Foundation as one of fourteen firms to design safe, affordable, and environmentally sensitive housing to rebuild New Orleans’ Katrina ravaged Lower 9th Ward. Construction at 1744 Tennessee Street, the site for our first house, began on July 1, 2008; homeowners are scheduled to move in during September. John Williams Architects of New Orleans is the Executive Architect responsible for construction documents and administration.
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11 July 2008 |
Materials, Monitoring, Offsite Fabrication, Research, Residential
photo © Albert Vecerka
Cellophane House is a five-story, offsite fabricated dwelling commissioned by the Museum of Modern Art for the exhibition, Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling, on view July 20 through October 20, 2008. The project is a full scale prototype that confronts several agendas head on: the economy of offsite fabrication, design for disassembly, recycled and recyclable materials, parametric modeling, and the evolution of SmartWrap™, a high-performance building skin.
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