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In Vorarlberg wachsen jedes Jahr 610.000 Vorratsmeter Tannen-, Fichten- und Laubholz nach, die die Region bekannt gemacht haben für eine vorbildhafte Holzbautradtion. Vorarlberg setzt weltweit Maßstäbe in der architektonischen wie auch handwerklichen Qualität von Holzbauten. Der Umgang mit dem Werkstoff Holz ist geprägt von einer inspirierend innovativen Kreativität. Die Vorarlberger Projekte zeigen keinerlei Berührungsängste: Mehrgeschossigkeit, Hochbau, Vorfertigung, urbaner Wohnungsbau, Industriebauten sind Selbstverständlichkeiten und eröffnen ein beeindruckend breit aufgestelltes Zukunftsbild des "traditionellen" Holzbaus. In Vorarlberg, you can find a 610,000-cubic-metre volume of pine, spruce and hardwood that has made the region renowned for its exemplary tradition of timber construction. Vorarlberg has been setting standards worldwide in the architectural design and hand-crafted quality of wooden buildings. Their use of wood is characterised by an inspired innovative creativity. A selection of current projects demonstrates how wood can be re-invented at times or employed in extraordinary designs and applications.
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If we want to continue existing on this earth, an era of renewable energy and materials is urgently needed. What role could mass timber, with its potential to replace concrete and steel, have in ensuring the planet’s survival? This book retraces wood’s passage from stewarded seed in the soil of forests, to harvested biomass, to laminated walls in a living room, through to its disassembly, pausing at each step in the supply chain of mass timber to consider the labor and economies involved, looking closely at the way wood is grown, sourced, and transported, and its impacts on the biodiversity of the forest and the health of our ecosystems. It explores why historically entrenched contexts of extractivism make such sensitive approaches difficult to cultivate across landscapes and industrial frameworks. Along the way, common assumptions about mass timber are debunked, including its fire performance, its strength, and its role in carbon sequestration. Having identified contemporary technical, cultural, and spiritual gaps preventing the transition towards a fully timber built environment, it outlines how we might move forward. A more sensitive species-based methodology is essential, with designers as choreographers of carbon, transferring and trading between forest, factory, site, and beyond. This will be an important read for anyone interested in our built environment and how to design it to be non-extractive, especially those with an interest in architecture, urbanism, forests, ecology, and timber, as well as students of architecture and design interested in the generative nature of materials and design processes.
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A superb selection of wooden constructions. The collection has been carefully chosen to present some of the finest examples of wooden architecture today. The latest techniques and imaginative proposals, from prominent architects on the international scene, will offer readers inspiration to apply to their own projects. Full-color photos and concise explanatory texts provide the architects? perspectives for each construction and make this volume an essential book in the collection of any architect or student of architecture.
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Holz ist einer der elementarsten und ältesten Baustoffe der Menschheit und hat bis heute nicht an Attraktivität und Aktualität verloren. In vielen Kultur- und Klimazonen sind neben Mauerwerksbauten Wohnhäuser aus Holz die dominierende Bauweise. Das lebendige, leichte und einfach zu verarbeitende Material unterliegt jedoch speziellen Eigenarten, die in ihrer Bauweise nicht mit anderen Baustoffen zu vergleichen sind. Um qualitative und materialgerechte Entwürfe zu entwickeln, benötigen Architekten spezifische Kenntnisse über diesen Baustoff und über die im Holzbau verwendeten Konstruktionsregeln. Die Neuauflage des erfolgreichen Bandes Basics Holzbau ergänzt die gebräuchlichsten Bausysteme um das Thema des Massivholzbaus mit massiven Wandbauelementen, deren Regeln und Anwendungen sowie die dazugehörigen Details. Timber is one of the most elementary and oldest building materials used by mankind, and has still not lost any of its attractiveness and topicality. In many cultural spheres and climate zones, the primary construction methods of domestic architecture include both masonry construction and timber construction. However, this living, lightweight, and easy-to-work material has specific characteristics that impact on the way it is used in construction in different ways compared to other building materials. In order to develop high-quality designs that suit the material, architects need to be familiar with the specific characteristics of this building material and with the rules governing timber construction. The new edition of the successful Basics Timber Construction volume lists the most common solid timber construction systems, including that using solid timber wall elements, as well as the rules, applications, and the relevant details.
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