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Distinctive features of the operation: The peat bog shelter is a participative building site in which no companies were involved, executed using the means at hand.
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It was built by a team composed of municipal workers and volunteers from the village.
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It will provide accommodation for the walkers and the “Classe verte” school trip children who come every week to discover the treasures of the last peat bog in the Meurthe-et-Moselle region.
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The small covered yard raises the question of small wood sections and the theme of density in architecture.
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The wavelike frame, massive yet airy, sits in the clearing like an insect.
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It offers a new and intriguing use of the “good old plank of wood”.
Everyone can make up their own interpretation of the building according to their imagination — the framework, bathed in light, appears to us like a cloud.
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The structure is composed uniquely of old planks, screwed together to form a dense web which allows an even distribution of the tensions in the frame.
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The rafters and the posts are regular and aligned but the position of the collar beams is progressively shifted — to sustain the various stresses: triangulation or cantilever beam.
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This particular disposition also creates arches and crosses, which serve as bracing for the three main plans of the construction: lateral, longitudinal and roofing. No crossbucks or bracing panels are required.
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Lateral dilatation is permitted (up to 20 centimeters of longitudinal expansion between summer and winter) because there is nothing to restrain it: the purlins are crossed to allow movement and the corrugated plexiglass is extensible like an accordion. Source by Studiolada Architectes.
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Location: Bertrichamps, France
Architects: Studiolada Architectes, Yoann Saehr Architect
Project Manager: Christophe Aubertin; studiolada architects, Yoann Saehr Architect
Structural Engineer: BE Barthes Bois
Area: 81.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Christophe Aubertin, Nicolas Waltefaugle