Czech studio Mjölk Architekti has created a mass-timber constructing with a gabled solar-panelled roof for the headquarters of timber and forest administration firm Kloboucká lesní within the Czech Republic.
With its outsized timber gable, the four-storey construction in Brumov-Bylnice nods to conventional architectural types. However the studio additionally wished to underline the chances of timber buildings.
“We wished the brand new constructing to be created from native supplies and we wished to know the way far we may go along with it when it comes to design and, extra importantly, when it comes to development,” Mjölk Architekti architect Filip Cerha informed Dezeen.
“The end result then is the monumentality of the gable, which supplies us an attractive area of a lined terrace planted with pots of greenery, however above all refers back to the magnificence of the potential of utilizing wooden in buildings that may assist to construct sustainably.”
The constructing’s body is created from glued laminated timber (glulam) and designed as a modular shell that may create a versatile inside for the constructing and permit for future changes to the area.
The glulam was made utilizing spruce from Kloboucká lesní’s personal forests surrounding the constructing and manufactured by the corporate only a hundred metres from the positioning.
The 1,034-square-metre Kloboucká lesní headquarters contains workplace areas in addition to workshop and leisure areas on the bottom and first flooring, whereas the highest ground will host lectures, firm occasions and shows.
Contained in the headquarters, timber and concrete ceilings match the uncovered concrete flooring.
Glulam timber profiles, wooden panelling and wood-glass acoustic partitions have been utilized in lieu of stable partitions to create a light-weight, spacious inside.
“These partitions give the inside an open really feel,” the studio mentioned. “All of the glazed partitions and the bio-board cladding have sliding bearings in relation to the motion of the timber constructing.”
Mjölk Architekti designed the constructing’s inside to indicate off its internal workings.
“The constructing itself reveals the design ideas on which it’s primarily based, how it’s plotted and the way it’s linked,” Cerha mentioned.
“At the hours of darkness, because the ribs of the construction itself recede into the background, we understand the person inside preparations inside the constructing,” he added.
“That’s the reason we now have tried to make each useful factor instantly apparent and legible at a look, not obscured by something. We predict that everybody ought to be capable to see the essence of the entire home.”
Kloboucká lesní goals to handle its forests sustainably and replant timber when they’re harvested to be used in its timber merchandise.
To replicate this, Mjölk Architekti integrated numerous sustainable options into the constructing. This included masking the roof with photo voltaic panels that produce sufficient vitality to fulfill the constructing’s vitality wants and create a surplus that can be utilized for the corporate’s manufacturing.
Glass covers the components of the roof the place the solar would not attain and there are not any photo voltaic panels. Open ponds close to the constructing are used to retailer rainwater runoff from the roof, which is then used for irrigation and for cooling throughout the summer time months.
The constructing and surrounding services are heated from a central boiler home that makes use of wooden chips from the corporate’s personal manufacturing as biomass to make it impartial from different gas sources.
“The constructing is designed to set the course for the longer term,” Cehra concluded. “For us, this implies bearing in mind ecological concerns, simplicity and frugality mixed with the most recent applied sciences.”
Mjölk Architekti has designed numerous current initiatives within the Czech Republic, together with 4 animal-like lookout towers and a “glittering glass extension” to a centuries-old cabin.
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Undertaking credit:
Chief engineer: Pavel Srba
Structural engineering: Lostade CZ
Development supervision: Petr Vlček
Concrete contractor: Michal Drga
Picket development contractor: Pukýš Drevostavby
Electrical engineering: Elseremo
Mechanical engineer: Ladislav Stružka
Heating and plumbing: Mont SA
Metal development: KL Techstage
Inside partitions and claddings: Woodyglass
Lighting options: Konvičný – Lampárna Lighting
Panorama structure: Atelier Partero
Backyard contractor: GISarch studio
Flat roof options: Izolplast Zlín
Pavement contractor: Strabag
Picket terraces contactor: Pavel Fojtík
Sheetmetal merchandise: Petr Zimáček
Graphic design: Lenka Mičolová
