Loblolly House: Elements of a New Architecture - Hardcover

Kieran, Stephen; Timberlake, James

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1568987471 ISBN 13: 9781568987477

Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press, 2008

Synopsis

"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 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.

About this title

About the Authors

Authors Stephen Kieran and James Timberlake founded KieranTimberlake Associates in 1984. They are the authors of Manual: The Architecture of KieranTimberlake and Refabricating Architecture: How Manufacturing Methodologies are Poised to Transform Building Construction.

Authors Stephen Kieran and James Timberlake founded KieranTimberlake Associates in 1984. They are the authors of Manual: The Architecture of KieranTimberlake and Refabricating Architecture: How Manufacturing Methodologies are Poised to Transform Building Construction.

Edition details

• Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1568987471
• ISBN 13: 9781568987477
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 128