Loblolly House : Elements of a New Architecture Hardback
by Stephen Kieran, James Timberlake
Hardback
Description
"If prefabs are assembly-line Fords, Loblolly is a custom hot rod, begging for mass production." --Andrew Blum for WIRED magazineKnown for their in-depth research and innovative, inventive, and meticulously constructed architecture, KieranTimberlake Assoicates put its ideas about streamlining the making of architecture to the test.
The results took the form of a fully modular and award-winning house, featuring an active and adjustable double-skin facade so advanced that no client would consider it.
KieranTimberlake Assoicates boldly took the project upon themselves, using partner Stephen Kieran's own summer house as a laboratory.
Situated on idyllic Taylors Island, off the coast of Maryland's Chesapeake Bay, Loblolly House inaugurates a truly new, more efficient way of building.
Through the use of state-of-the-art building information modeling (BIM), the architects were able to streamline the design-build process.
Thousands of parts were collapsed and integrated into a few dozen panels and blocks that slid into an aluminum frame set on wooden pylons.
Consisting of 70 percent prefabricated components, the kit-of-parts house was assembled (mostly with a wrench) and lifted into place on-site in less than six weeks. Unlike most houses, even those built with sustainability in mind, Loblolly disassembles as easily as it assembles, making it an ecologically sound structure with a manageable environmental footprint.
Focusing on a single built project andillustrated with extensive photographic documentation and numerous detailed drawings, Loblolly House is the manual for componentized prefab.
The book includes a DVD of the film "A House in the Trees" by producers Rick Deppe andKathleen Blake, a real-time documentary of the design, fabrication, and assembly of Loblolly House.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:128 pages, 105 colour
- Publisher:Princeton Architectural Press
- Publication Date:21/07/2008
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- ISBN:9781568987477
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Item not Available
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:128 pages, 105 colour
- Publisher:Princeton Architectural Press
- Publication Date:21/07/2008
- Category:
- ISBN:9781568987477
