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Haus Gables in Atlanta

Cross-laminated timber Georgia Residential Property design by Jennifer Bonner / MALL, USA

May 8, 2019

Haus Gables

Architects: Jennifer Bonner / MALL

Location: Atlanta, Georgia, USA

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Haus Gables is a 2,200 square-foot single-family residence located in Atlanta, Georgia USA. Haus Gables is one of only a handful of houses constructed from CLT in the United States, an exceptionally strong wood material produced by gluing together layers of lumber that alternate in direction.

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A long-standing research project on roof typologies found in the American South informed this proof-of-concept. Haus Gables is a cluster of six gable roofs, combined to form a single roof. In an attempt to rework spatial paradigms of the past, such as Le Corbusier’s free plan and Aldof Loos’s raumplan, MALL offers the roof plan as a way to organize architecture. Here, the roof plan establishes rooms, catwalks, and double height spaces in the interior by aligning these spaces to ridges and valleys in the roof above. In this case, the floorplan is a result of the roof.

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From a curb-side view, an asymmetrical and unfamiliar form replaces the traditional gable elevation house, as if the usual form were clipped. Strange profiles emerge on all four elevations as the six gable roofs are cut at the perimeter’s massing. Other slight alterations to the ordinary include roof pitches which are much steeper than those found in industry standards. The house, which sits on a 24-foot-wide plot, has a width of 18 feet, the same size as a single-wide mobile home. The uncharacteristically slim home generates ideas for the applicability of the roof plan to denser urban environments.

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All exterior and interior walls, floors, and roof are made of solid Cross-Laminated Timber (CLT) panels, a material widely used in construction overseas but is new to the US market. Custom-cut, hoisted into place, and assembled in fourteen days’ time, the CLT in Haus Gablesenables a solid house that eschews stick frame construction. Structurally inventive, the panels also promote a monolithic view of the material from the domestic interior.

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The project further engages in the conceptual exploration of materiality through a series of faux-finishes that clad the exterior and parts of the interior in opposition to expectations. Black terrazzo is not poured in-place and polished, but applied as a thin tile, while oriented strand board (OSB) is replaced by ceramic tiles in the image of OSB.

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The marble finishes in the bedroom and adjacent bathroom are made of unlikely materials, including vinyl and cartoonish drawings, rather than the oft-desired, real, Italian marble. These faux finishes that cover the interior environment seem to indicate spatial divisions, when in reality they do not correspond to the actual boundaries of any room.

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On the exterior, two sides of the house are covered in faux-bricks made of stucco. Haus Gables undertakes an old tradition of faux finishing in the American South, historically stemming from an inability to afford precious materials, and the subsequent desire to “fake it.”

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With the use of unconventional materials and an unusual roof design, Haus Gables is an exploration of new ways that form, spatial organization, and material might function in a home.

Haus Gables Atlanta – Building Information

Design: Jennifer Bonner / MALL
Project Team: Jennifer Bonner, Ben Halpern, Benzi Rodman, Justin Jiang, Dohyun Lee, Daniela Leon
Associate Architect: Jeffery Olinger, Olinger Architects
Structural Engineers: Hanif Kara and Laura Hannigan (AKT II); Chris Carbone and Florian Back (Bensonwood); Kelly Allbright (PEC Structural); Joe Miller (Fire Tower)
Civil Engineer: Trey Baltz, Crescent View Engineering
Façade and Material Research: Alex Timmer
CLT Manufacturer: KLH – Austria (Project Lead: Sebastian Popp)
CLT Installation Specialist: Terry Ducatt
Wood Products Specialist, Shehzad Bhayani, 7 Seas Group USA

General Contractor: Ryan Locke, Principle Builder’s Group
Landscape Design: Carley Rickles
Mechanical Systems: Emily McGlohn
Interior Finishes: Coverings Etc. (Eco-Terr tile); Stone Source (Ornamenta Artwork tile); RPS Distributors ( Vives Ceramica Strand-R tile); Rabern-Nash (Johnsonite & Forbo tile)
Wall Assembly: Vapro-Sheild, Vapro-Mat, Kingspan Kooltherm K-20 insulation board
Sub-Contractors: Cool Roofing Company; Natural Plastering Inc.; RayPaul Coating, Inc.
Photography: Timothy Hursley; NAARO
Furniture: Switch Modern (Kartell, Glas Italia, Stark); DOM Interiors (Casamania); Design Within Reach (Herman Miller); A+R (HAY); Yliving (MUUTO); Hem Design Studio; Ligne Roset; Bend; Blu Dot; Floyd; Artek; WELCOME COMPANIONS

photo © Timothy Hursley

Photography © NAARO and Timothy Hursley

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