Loblolly house was designed by Kieran Timberlake Architects is a prefabricated house that proposes a more efficient method of assembly. Located on a barrier island off the coast of Maryland, in United States, Loblolly House seeks to fuse the natural elements of the site to architectural form. Timber foundations minimize the house’s footprint and provide savannah-like views of the trees and the bay, and the staggered boards of the east façade evoke the solids and voids of the forest.
This project proposes a new, more efficient method of building through the use of building information modeling (BIM) and integrated component assemblies. The thousands of parts that make up a house were collapsed into a small number of offsite fabricated cartridges and blocks and simply attached to an industrial aluminum frame on site in less than six weeks.
Floor and ceiling cartridges are pre-wired to distribute electric and mechanical systems throughout the house. Exterior wall cartridges containing structure, insulation, and windows and the exterior wood rain screen complete the house. The west facade is an adjustable, double-layer system with interior folding glass doors and exterior polycarbonate hangar doors that provide shading from the sun and storm protection. The façade can be completely opened for cooling, and closed to harness solar radiation for warmth.
The house was designed to be disassembled as simply as it is assembled. At any point during its life cycle, the house can be modified or taken apart without demolition, and the components reused, reclaimed or sorted into recycling streams.
The Loblolly House by Kieran Timberlake Architects is a winner of the second annual Lifecycle Building Challenge 2 (LBC2) competition, sponsored by the United States Environmental Protection Agency. The competition acknowledges the winning teams for developing building strategies that will help to reduce environmental and energy impacts of buildings and assist the building industry in the reuse of more than 100 million tons of building-related construction and demolition debris sent each year to landfills in the United States. Reusing building materials also reduces the energy and greenhouse gas emissions associated with extraction, production, and transportation of new materials.
Loblolly House represents a novel approach to off-site fabricated and modular building concepts. The house design uses integrated assemblies which are detailed for on-site assembly, future disassembly and redeployment. To test the viability of design for disassembly, we performed a virtual house disassembly/reassembly. To further our research, we analyzed the embodied energy and carbon footprint analysis and created a design-for-reassembly scenario to evidence the potential of a near 100% waste diversion design intent. more house design in United States
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