#hermannkaufmann

#NoFilter on the #UBC campus at #BrockCommons, the tallest #wood building in the world. The world! #ActonOstryArchitects designed, with timber consultancy from #ArchitektenHermannKaufmann. It really looks beautiful. The structure is mostly not exposed, though wood is celebrated as a finish material in common spaces, and #glulam beams and columns are exposed in social spaces on the 18th (top) floor. I got REALLY lucky and ran into one of the superintendents on site, and got to pick his brain about the construction process. Accustomed to working in concrete, he was a BIG fan of structural #masstimber and #prefabrication. Accuracy was within millimeters, and the wood performed better than expected in compression. More I'll have to #blog about later! #travel4timber . . . . #hhfellowship #harthowertonfellowship #hermannkaufmann #CLT #crosslam (at University of British Columbia)

Incredible day--followed up the #LCTOne visit with a generously long and informative interview with Christoph Dünser, an architect at Architekten #HermannKaufmann. #itsalljusttoomuch #travel4timber #harthowerton #harthowertonfellowship #hhfellowship #selfie (at Schwarzach, Vorarlberg, Austria)

First sunny afternoon in #München. New book. #HermannKaufmann #TUM #TechnicalUniversityofMunich #mustlearngermantho #travel4timber #translate4timber (at Museum Brandhorst)

In just 11 days I'll be meeting with the project architect for Illwerke Zentrum Montafon (IZM), infrequently known as LCT2. So. Many. Questions. Pictured here are construction photos from LifeCycle Tower (LCT) One (top) and IZM (bottom), projects utilizing a #masstimber - concrete hybrid building system developed as a collaborative research effort in Austria between Rhomberg-CREE and the architect #HermannKaufmann. The system was designed to be able to be employed anywhere in the world, and can reach up to 30 stories in height. LCT One (2012), the pilot project, is 8 stories, IZM (2013) is 5. The LCT building system has been influential in other mass timber projects worldwide, including Vancouver's #BrockCommons (2017), the tallest mass timber building in the world at 18 stories. Images from http://www.buildup.eu/en/practices/cases/lifecycle-tower-one-building and http://www.detail-online.com/article/a-hybrid-timber-building-system-office-for-hydroelectric-power-plant-16664/ , originals next week!! . . . . . . . #timber #timberarchitecture #woodarchitecture #hermannkaufmannarchitekten #solidwood #hashtaggingistiring #wood (at Vorarlberg)

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