Example of wooden architecture
Example of wooden architecture

Wooden buildings and works

Wood architecture is the section of arkitectureonweb dedicated to all those architectural and design projects that choose this material as the central element of the project. A way of building that has been continuously expanding in recent years thanks to the countless advantages it brings: energy saving, sustainability, lightness, speed of construction and good seismic and fire resistance behavior.

Architecture with wood is a form of construction that is based on the use of natural materials to create sustainable and environmentally responsible buildings. Wood offers many benefits as a renewable natural resource, including ease of processing, resistance to moisture and insects, thermal insulation and durability. Additionally, wood provides a warm, comfortable environment that encourages health and well-being.

Various types of wood such as oak, spruce or pine are used in wood architecture. Each offers different advantages in terms of aesthetics or characteristics of the final product.

The interesting thing is that this type of architecture can be used in multiple ways: from traditional load-bearing structures to modern prefabricated houses that can be built in a relatively short time.

But what are the main construction systems for building wooden buildings?

The Xlam structure: it is a massive technique which provides for the use of load-bearing elements inside the wooden buildings made up of multilayer panels, whose static behavior is similar to that of slabs.

The Block House technique, one of the first used, is a massive solution and involves the overlapping of heavy wooden elements, once trunks, stuck together.

The frame construction system is a lightweight solution that involves the construction of a load-bearing skeleton with non-load-bearing infill panels.

The Platform Frame construction system allows the construction of wooden buildings up to 4 floors high in a short period of time. The load-bearing walls are made up of wooden beams at regular intervals, closed by rigid wood or plaster-based panels.

 

A wood pavilion as an experiment for an archetypal space
A wood pavilion as an experiment for an archetypal space

The wooden pavilion is a spatial experiment in which the designers of LIN Architects give up considering functional elements, looking instead for keywords that can define the spatial elements in the environment

Challenging architecture with three buildings and a courtyard at the Golf & Ski Resort in Ostravice: maintenance properties transformed through wood design
Challenging architecture with three buildings and a courtyard at the Golf & Ski Resort in Ostravice: maintenance properties transformed through wood design

What is the role of architecture and urban planning in the field of facilities with a purely service function? This is the question the architects of the PAPOUSEK AND SILHAN firm asked themselves as they approached the redevelopment of the maintenance area of the Golf & Ski Resort in Ostravice

Vliervelden. A ranch with a residential building made for urban farmers in the Netherlands
Vliervelden. A ranch with a residential building made for urban farmers in the Netherlands

Vliervelden is the contemporary ranch in Oosterwold by Tom Saat and Tineke van den Berg, urban farmers from Almere, within which a residential building with 21 apartments as well as a barn and stable, a farmhouse, a covered entrance, and a store for the sale of agricultural products will also be built

Wood cladding and blackened steel details featured in House L in an effort to integrate the architecture into a protected natural area
Wood cladding and blackened steel details featured in House L in an effort to integrate the architecture into a protected natural area

House L stands in a protected area in the municipality of san martino, in the autonomous province of bolzano, italy. The l-shaped building embraces the old silver fir tree placed in the center of the garden, turning its back on the volumes of businesses that flank it 

Energy autonomy and living comfort for the wood and steel BE House
Energy autonomy and living comfort for the wood and steel BE House

The BE House was designed for an entrepreneurial family of four people. The project site is a 370sqm plot, with an optimal orientation, surrounded by small houses in the town of Argentona, a 30-minute drive from Barcelona

Modern tropical villa
Modern tropical villa. The design challenges the boundaries between the interior and natural landscape

Architect Alexis Dornier designs a tropical villa in Bali, Indonesia, with modern forms, characterized by a large polygonal wooden element, which acts as a shading and is an element of transition between the interior and exterior

The Hermitage of Silence, a meditative place in contact with nature for total privacy
The Hermitage of Silence, a meditative place in contact with nature for total privacy

The Hermitage of Silence will rise in Montiglio in the hills of the Asti region. It will be a structure without foundations to allow it to be moved easily, made of structural poplar plywood, a very light material that goes well with the goal of making it flexible

From the Yucatan tradition, the urban furniture to stay close to each other in the new canons of the current collective living
From the Yucatan tradition, the urban furniture to stay close to each other in the new canons of the current collective living

The Susana chair is the reinterpretation of an urban furniture that is part of the traditional expression of the Yucatan: the "trust chair", composed of two chairs facing each other, designed for couples so that they could look at each other and talk intimately but at a distance

hotel among the trees with swimming pool
Hotel built in the trees. The preserved vegetation is part of the architecture

The project of a small hotel that stands among the trees is the work of the Jesus Acosta Arquitectura studio, whose main objective is to preserve as much vegetation as possible while building around it, using local materials

Burnt wood and an energetic neutrality in the silky Dutch Black House
Burnt wood and an energetic neutrality in the silky Dutch Black House

An asymmetrical sculptural play of both body and openness, enhanced by minimalist details that provide a powerful luminosity to the space, this is the Black House in Berkel-Enschot clad in burnt wood that gives it a smooth, shiny skin like black silk

Vacation home in Sao Paulo. Natural materials for a modern, welcoming and timeless space
Vacation home in Sao Paulo. Natural materials for a modern, welcoming and timeless space

The project for house Q04L63 by mf+arquitetos studio stems from the desire of a family to have a cozy and spacious vacation home where they could spend their weekends and host friends and relatives

Channel Vigolungo Showroom. An experimental project to explore the potential of poplar plywood
Channel Vigolungo Showroom. An experimental project to explore the potential of poplar plywood

Canale Vigolungo Showroom & Offices is a building made of highly technological poplar plywood prefabricated elements that offers a very comfortable indoor ambiance, thanks to a natural environment given by the use of wood in all building components

11 poles and a pentagonal plant for the ecological house that floats half a meter above the ground
11 poles and a pentagonal plant for the ecological house that floats half a meter above the ground

To limit the impact of the Ecological Holiday Home project on the surrounding natural environment, it is possible to rely on 11 poles supporting the construction, its organic shapes and the use of natural materials

Split View Mountain Lodge. Shape and materials in continuity with Norwegian building traditions
Split View Mountain Lodge. Shape and materials in continuity with Norwegian building traditions

Split View Mountain Lodge, designed for 4 people plus a new one on the way, is located near the village of Geilo, a popular ski destination in Norway's Hallingdal Valley. Around it, the landscape offers abundant ski resorts in winter and excellent opportunities for hiking and other sports in summer

People's Pavilion in Eindhoven. A new future for a sustainable building
People's Pavilion in Eindhoven. A new future for a sustainable building

The People' s Pavilion, the Dutch pavilion that won the Frame Awards in the Sustainable Design category and the Dutch Design Awards in the Habitat category has been designed by bureau SLA and Overtreders W studios as a 100% sustainable pavilion

Lighting, heat, soil and water. A house that opens to the sun while reflecting the ecological lifestyle of its inhabitants
Lighting, heat, soil and water. A house that opens to the sun while reflecting the ecological lifestyle of its inhabitants

On the outskirts of the town of MaléKyšice near the forests of Křivoklát in the Czech Republic, a house made of wood, glass, and concrete personifies the forward-looking ecological vocation of its inhabitants: a house that opens up to the sun and, like every living organism in nature, transforms it into vital energy

from farm to villa
From a Dutch Farm to a contemporary Villa. Wooden interiors and aluminium cladding

The Mecanoo architecten studio reinterprets the typology of a Dutch farm in a contemporary style, a group of farmhouses grouped around a courtyard located near Vught, by designing a villa distributed in distinct volumes

Tree house in Switzerland. A comfortable environment among the leaves of the trees
Tree house in Switzerland. A comfortable environment among the leaves of the trees

The Baumraum studio responds to the wishes of two friends, Helgard and Nina, who wanted to create a special refuge for themselves and their guests, a tree house with a comfortable environment in Halden, Switzerland

Wooden Cladding Holiday Home
House in the Alps. Architecture helps to create an intense relationship with nature

The holiday house, with its external wooden "skin", is designed by GEZA gri and zucchi architecture and is located in Tarvisio in the province of Udine, in a complex place characterized by a steep slope terrain and a breathtaking view

Jazz Campus in Switzerland. A combination of musical improvisation and architectural planning in a single body
Jazz Campus in Switzerland. A combination of musical improvisation and architectural planning in a single body

Two challenges for the Jazz Campus in Basel: the first to unite two very different disciplines, jazz music that is improvisation and freedom, with architecture that has the task of avoiding randomness by planning and fixing forms; the second to integrate a new building into the old city

Mending the urban fabric of a neighborhood through the innovative design of a bridge
Mending the urban fabric of a neighborhood through the innovative design of a bridge

Drift, Volkan Alkanoglu's signature wood and steel pedestrian bridge, an example of art, architecture and design, is installed in Fort Worth, Texas, an example of a sustainable design strategy

Climber's Cabin, a peaceful retreat with a forest connection in order to break away from everyday life
Climber's Cabin, a peaceful retreat with a forest connection in order to break away from everyday life

Nestled between the edge of a deciduous woodland and a stream near Winchester, England, Climber's Cabin is intended to serve as guest accommodation and an independent space for the client's children as they grow up

Native trees hosted by
Native trees hosted by "Casa Un Patio"

Casa Un Patio, in which nature is literally at the center of the project, stands in an extremely dense forest, with problems related to the protection of native species, isolation and accessibility, at the foot of the Chilean volcano Villarrica, in the locality of Molco

A new edition of the Colosseum at the Sziget Festival. An amphitheater built out of re-usable pallets
A new edition of the Colosseum at the Sziget Festival. An amphitheater built out of re-usable pallets

The first Colosseum at the Sziget Festival was built in 2012 with the idea of using pallets, which were inspired by the pallets used for the logistics that are usually found around large events. With this system, the modules of the structure do not need to be disposed of at the end of the show, nor do they need to be numbered for reuse. This highly successful experiment has created a new category of festival venue: an architecture that is both functional and spectacular, completely different from the usual structures

Wooden shelter on the Strait of Gibraltar
Wooden shelter on the Strait of Gibraltar. Architecture conceived as a solar calendar

Spanish studio estudio eyc designs Cabanon 1005, a wooden shelter located on the magical beach between Torre de Gracia and Cabo de la Plata, on which solar inclinations define the dimensions and volumetric shapes of the project

The 48th North Landscape Hotel redefines the concept of luxury: space, privacy, sobriety and nature
The 48th North Landscape Hotel redefines the concept of luxury: space, privacy, sobriety and nature

Breitenbach Landscape Hotel offers a holistic, true ecotourism experience in Alsace, inspired by Scandinavian traditions and based on the culinary, wellness and nature immersion opportunities offered by the region. Perched on the heights of the Alsatian village of Breitenbach, Landscape Hotel 48° Nord reinterprets the traditional Scandinavian "Hytte": a place of retreat and reconnection with the wilderness

Spruce forest gives way to Suncrest Residence
Spruce forest gives way to Suncrest Residence

We are on Orca Island, Washington, and a 3000 square foot residence makes way for an old fir forest with occasional rocky glades and several small ponds

Caraccard,
Caraccard, "a raccard with character" and with its solved Rubik's Cube appearance

The Caraccard takes its name from the raccard, which in Switzerland is a wooden building typical of the Alps: breathtaking views and steep terrain are responsible for precise architectural choices in the design

Wooden house sky and lawn
Vernacular references and carbonized wooden facade. House on Lake Michigan

The house, perched on a wooded promontory on Lake Michigan, designed by Desai Chia Architecture in collaboration with Environment Architects (AOR)studio, refers to the vernacular architecture of the surrounding villages

Ovoid tree house
A tree house with a light and elegant character. A curved building with elliptical windows

Baumraum studio designed a tree house in Lower Saxony near Bremen, which proved to be a challenge for designers and craftsmen, given the client's requirements for an unusual and comfortable home for the whole family