Wood Construction
Design and construction approaches using wood as a primary structural and material system.
Wood construction encompasses the design and building of structures that prioritize timber as a fundamental material. Architects and designers use wood for its structural properties, aesthetic qualities, and environmental considerations, from small-scale pavilions to residential buildings.
The community explores timber construction across diverse scales and contexts: material dialogues between wood and stone, timber apartment blocks and housing, forest interventions, pavilion design, and adaptive reuse projects that demonstrate wood's versatility in contemporary architecture.
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Bernardo Bader Wraps a Three-Storey Mass-Timber Kindergarten in Banded Larch at the Edge of Wolfurt
In Wolfurt, Austria, a six-group children's house uses 420 m³ of local timber, clay-casein floors and banded larch to hold its own by the village core.
Polysmiths Wraps a Backland Infill House in East London with Cork Walls, Inside and Out
In Forest Gate, Newham, a three-bedroom infill home pulls cork out of the wall cavity and makes it the finish, shaped by pandemic material shortages.
Hello Wood Stacks a Pink Timber Food Hall, Beer Garden and Tree Houses onto a Former Zürich Freight Yard
On an abandoned rail yard in Zürich West, a three-level CLT complex of terraces, tree houses and blue steel stairs turns street food into civic theatre.
Common Wonder Builds a 14-Square-Meter Pavilion That Treats Stone and Wood as Equal Voices
A garden studio in Amsterdam distills the raw tension between French limestone and timber into a single, precise room.
