Realizada enteramente en madera con los materiales del lugar.
Fuente: studiokahn.com, designboom.com
Existe un video muy bueno e interesante de este proyecto en:
http://vimeo.com/28848933
Fuente: studiokahn.com, designboom.com
Existe un video muy bueno e interesante de este proyecto en:
http://vimeo.com/28848933
Woodsman Cottage, Cottage Beams, Sussex, UK
Grand Designs - Woodsman Cottage:
For 10 years, Ben Law lived in tents and caravans in a wood in West Sussex. As a woodsman, he needed and wanted to live among the trees, but now he wanted a house for some creature comforts. He invited volunteers to help him build one by hand, from the materials growing around him.
Ben owned a third of the sweet-chestnut woodland and rented the rest. The house he designed was to be made almost entirely of wood, with an A-frame made of tree trunks, a wooden platform for a floor and oak shingles on the roof.
All the timber would come from the surrounding trees – sweet chestnut is a strong hardwood, ideal for this kind of building.
Building began in May, and Ben’s ambition was to move in by the time the winter weather arrived. The hand-crafted approach meant taking time over details. For instance, much of the wood was being left in the round. This meant that it kept its natural beauty and strength, but special joints were required for fixing curved surfaces together. And the pace of work altered according to how many volunteers turned up.
The A-frame went up in a day – an extraordinary feat, involving hand-winching pairs of 9 m tree trunks. But filling in the frame with floors and a verandah, and adding rafters and internal walls, involved slow and steady work that lasted months. Then there were the 12,000 oak shingles, all hand-cut by Ben, to be nailed on to the roof.
In autumn, recycled newspaper insulation went under the floor and into the roof, and oak-edged boards were fitted on to the outside of the house. Then barley-straw bales, which had been bought from a neighbouring farm, were stacked in between the timber fame and the internal stud-work to create thick walls. Ben installed a wood-burning stove, bath and hot-water cylinder, and started sleeping indoors.
Cabling, wrapped in copper to proof it against fire and rodents, was run through the straw. Using clay from his pond, Ben built a fireplace and covered the internal lath walls with clay plaster. Finally, glass went in to the windows, the straw bales were covered with lime plaster, and the house was weatherproofed – just as the November storms arrived.
Grand Designs - Woodsman Cottage:
For 10 years, Ben Law lived in tents and caravans in a wood in West Sussex. As a woodsman, he needed and wanted to live among the trees, but now he wanted a house for some creature comforts. He invited volunteers to help him build one by hand, from the materials growing around him.
Ben owned a third of the sweet-chestnut woodland and rented the rest. The house he designed was to be made almost entirely of wood, with an A-frame made of tree trunks, a wooden platform for a floor and oak shingles on the roof.
All the timber would come from the surrounding trees – sweet chestnut is a strong hardwood, ideal for this kind of building.
Building began in May, and Ben’s ambition was to move in by the time the winter weather arrived. The hand-crafted approach meant taking time over details. For instance, much of the wood was being left in the round. This meant that it kept its natural beauty and strength, but special joints were required for fixing curved surfaces together. And the pace of work altered according to how many volunteers turned up.
The A-frame went up in a day – an extraordinary feat, involving hand-winching pairs of 9 m tree trunks. But filling in the frame with floors and a verandah, and adding rafters and internal walls, involved slow and steady work that lasted months. Then there were the 12,000 oak shingles, all hand-cut by Ben, to be nailed on to the roof.
In autumn, recycled newspaper insulation went under the floor and into the roof, and oak-edged boards were fitted on to the outside of the house. Then barley-straw bales, which had been bought from a neighbouring farm, were stacked in between the timber fame and the internal stud-work to create thick walls. Ben installed a wood-burning stove, bath and hot-water cylinder, and started sleeping indoors.
Cabling, wrapped in copper to proof it against fire and rodents, was run through the straw. Using clay from his pond, Ben built a fireplace and covered the internal lath walls with clay plaster. Finally, glass went in to the windows, the straw bales were covered with lime plaster, and the house was weatherproofed – just as the November storms arrived.