Loblolly House: Elements of a New Architecture + DVD
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"If prefabs are assembly-line Fords, Loblolly is a custom hot rod, begging for mass production." —Andrew Blum for WIRED magazine
Known 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 and illustrated 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 and Kathleen Blake, a real-time documentary of the design, fabrication, and assembly of Loblolly House.
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 728.720975227
EAN: 9781568987477
ISBN: 1568987471
Label: Princeton Architectural Press
Manufacturer: Princeton Architectural Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 176
Publication Date: 2008-06-19
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Studio: Princeton Architectural Press
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Summary: Features a different award-winning house design: an adjustable double-skin facade
Comment: LOBLOLLY HOUSE: ELEMENTS OF A NEW ARCHITECTURE features a different award-winning house design: an adjustable double-skin facade situated off the coast of Maryland's Chesapeake Bay. Its integrated systems offer minimal impact to the site's ecosystem, and it's actually more than an experimental model: it's a step towards element-based mass housing and promises much for architectural change. This monograph examines KieranTimberlake Associate's creation and considers its impact on further prototypes of revolutionary design choices.
Diane C. Donovan
California Bookwatch
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