Who says you can't build a house in a day? A time-lapse video from the Orange County Register documents the Newport Beach, CA, installation of the KTLH 1.5 house we designed for LivingHomes.
In a matter of a few hours, four off-site fabricated wood and steel modules comprising the 2,500 square-foot, two-story residence were precision-craned onto the site. The homeowners expect to move into their new house a month after install, meaning the entire process from laying the foundation to final finishes comprises less than four months—a half to a third of the time it takes to build a home with conventional methods.
The home was constructed in a factory in Southern California. Before its permanent installation in Newport Beach, the house was exhibited in 2009 at the International Builders Show in Las Vegas, NV, and the TED Conference in Long Beach, CA. It is poised to become Orange County's first LEED-Platinum Certified Home.
Brockman Hall is composed of two bars nestled between existing buildings. This results in a total of eight different facades.
In the spring of 2008, we began design for Brockman Hall for Physics at Rice University in Houston, Texas. This 110,000 square-foot facility will house research, teaching, and office space for the Departments of Physics & Astronomy and Electrical & Computer Engineering. Nestled between existing buildings in the dense Science Quad, the building envelope respects the scale of the historic masonry vocabulary of the campus while extending it into a twenty-first century model for architecture and research at Rice.
Components of Cellophane House™ are manufactured at a plant in New Jersey.
In Bosch Rexroth's lean manufacturing podcast, James Timberlake discusses how aluminum structural framing, commonly used in factory applications, was used to build Cellophane House™.
“We aimed to create a mass customizable system of building, not just a one-off. We wanted to show how a lean manufacturing approach could bring optimal benefits to home building,” said Timberlake.
“Cellophane House™ Part I and II” is episode 9 in Rexroth's lean manufacturing podcast series, available for listening or free download from the company's website. The podcast series is also available on iTunes and other podcast directories online.
Cellophane House™ was recently featured on Big Ideas for a Small Planet, Season 3, Episode 5.
An award-winning original documentary series from the Sundance Channel, this episode of the show asks the question, “Can we imagine architecture built on sustainability?”
This episode features interviews with forward-thinking designers, including Michael Manfredi and Marion Weiss of Weiss/Manfredi Architects, Reed Kroloff from the Cranbrook Academy of Art, Rocio Romero, and our own James Timberlake and Stephen Kieran.
ArchDaily sat down with Partner Stephen Kieran and Research Director Billie Faircloth to discuss the history of research and its integral role in our practice, including projects like monitoring at Sage Bowers, the Yale Sculpture Building, and Sidwell Friends School.
It was announced last month that the Yale School of Art Gallery and Sidwell Friends Middle School received 2008 Western Red Cedar Architectural Design Awards, presented by The Western Red Cedar Lumber Association and The Cedar Shake and Shingle Bureau.
The April 2009 issue of Builder magazine featured our sustainable modular homes, developed in partnership with LivingHomes, which are fabricated off site and can be assembled on site in just four days.
Small, green, and factory-built, Builder's 2009 show home anticipates housing's future. By: Jenny Sullivan, Nigel F. Maynard
When Charles Darwin developed his theory of evolution, he wasn't thinking about housing, of course. But in this, the year of his 200th birthday, you can't help but imagine that the forces of natural selection are taking their toll on home building.
Few would argue that the industry has reached a point of reckoning. With credit in a virtual lockdown and fossil fuel reserves edging closer to extinction, home builders are adapting to new realities. The pressure is on to provide comfort and luxury in a smaller envelope, to engineer integrated, multifunctional plans and systems, and to build faster, smarter, and more economically. For many, this means rethinking how they've always done things.
Far be it from BUILDER to preach and not practice, so we upended some of our own timeworn habits in preparation for this year's International Builders' Show. Rather than doing stick-built showcase homes on conventional lots—as has been our tradition for nearly a decade—we partnered with modular builder and developer LivingHomes, the groundbreaking architects at KieranTimberlake Associates, and the eco-minded designers at Color Design Art to create an entirely different animal.
The 2,160-square-foot concept house that made its debut on the trade show floor of the Las Vegas Convention Center in January was factory-built to LEED specifications over the course of roughly three months. Shipped as a suite of modules and panels, it arrived on site nearly 95 percent complete and was stitched together in just four days. Simple, flexible, and sustainable, it is a study in how housing may very well evolve in the not so distant future.
Construction is scheduled to begin this spring for the new 12-story Center City Building for UNC Charlotte. Located at Ninth and Brevard Streets in downtown Charlotte, the new building will house the University's MBA program and other programs including graduate-level classes in the colleges of Engineering, Health and Human Services, Liberal Arts and Sciences, and Arts and Architecture's new master's program in Urban Design.
The new building defines UNC as a vibrant addition to the central business district, providing a unique icon for the university while establishing a lively urban presence in the First Ward. Charlotte-based Gantt Huberman Architects, our close design collaborators on this project, are serving as Architect of Record.
The U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations announced yesterday that KieranTimberlake is among four firms selected to present designs for the new London Embassy Building in the Nine Elms district of London.
The U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations (OBO) announced that four architectural firms have been selected for the final phase of the design competition for the new United States Embassy in London.
The four firms, KieranTimberlake; Morphosis Architects; PEI Cobb Freed & Partners; and Richard Meier & Partners, Architects presented the best qualifications to design the New London Embassy that will represent the highest international architectural standards.
An OBO panel used a thorough and rigorous evaluation process to initially review 37 submissions in the first round of the design competition. The nine firms selected for the second round provided presentations over two days to a distinguished jury of American and British leaders in the fields of architecture, academics and diplomacy. The jury then selected four firms to move to the final phase of the design competition.
This diverse group of finalists will explore the symbolism of the embassy, its image, and position in the cityscape of London. Their goal is to create a building and site complex that has timeless quality and represents the United States appropriately in the United Kingdom.
In November 2009, the four firms will present their three-dimensional models to the jury. The winning firm's design will be developed for construction of the New Embassy in London on the Nine Elms site.
The New London Embassy will speak to the time-honored relationship between the United States and the United Kingdom as strong and close allies. The building will reflect the values of the American people and reflect the spirit of our times.
For further information, please contact Jonathan Blyth at BlythJJ@State.gov or on (703) 875-4131.
The Kohler LivingHome is craned into place in Long Beach.
Image courtesy of TED 2009
After its debut at the International Builders Show in Las Vegas last month, the off-site fabricated home we designed for LivingHomes will be on display at the TED Conference in Long Beach. Designed to achieve LEED-Platinum certification, the two-story Kohler LivingHome features furnishings, materials, products and technologies that showcase the best in high design and technology with a low ecological footprint. Following the TED conference, the show home will remain open for public viewing from February 8 to February 21, 2009.
