Timber Frame
Timber frame construction in architecture and design, from traditional joinery to contemporary pavilions, cafés and community buildings built in wood.
Timber frame is a structural system in which a skeleton of heavy wood posts, beams and braces carries the loads of a building, with joints cut to fit without metal fasteners. Its lineage runs through Japanese post-and-beam carpentry, European half-timbering and vernacular barns, and it remains valued for its legibility, its capacity to span open interiors and its low embodied carbon.Member work under this topic shows timber frames applied at very different scales, from a 17 square metre café wedged between a shrine and a theatre to open pavilions for farms and courtyards. The projects also reach into infrastructure, public institutions and urban infill, where the frame is used to negotiate existing historic fabric.
