small timber-frame homes
CH-MO-006
Natural, sustainable collective or individual housing adapted to small or irregular plots.
- glued laminated wood frame
- mounted on a concrete plinth
- real estate developers
- pension funds
- private clients
- single persons
- couples
- families
- independent retirees
- multi-family dwellings
- small apartment buildings
- single-family homes
- multi-use buildings
- minimum surface area: 200 m²
- maximum surface area: 20'000 m²
- maximum height: ground floor + 3 storeys
image de fond: Vincent Callebaut Architecture — via archdaily.com
basic information
The small wood-frame building is a model for sites where space is at a premium. It is a comfortable and environmentally friendly building for the intermediate market segment.
The proposed model pays special attention to the community, the environment and the culture of the place, while introducing avant-garde technologies.
Creating a vibrant, safe and prosperous community requires careful consideration at the earliest stages of design. The proposed project takes this principle into account and places people at the heart of every future building.
Common spaces will be present in and around the buildings: for example, sports facilities, local commerce, community use, green spaces, gardens or vegetable gardens.
Moving from built environments that produce a sea of unintended externalized impacts to knowing and taking responsibility for those impacts is how green cities can take root.
— Rick Fedrizzi
We believe that making quality living spaces available to a wide audience at an affordable price is essential to creating thriving communities. By working with a minimalist approach and simple materials, we are able to create great places to live while keeping costs low.
One of the difficulties in working with natural materials is that they are more expensive than their typical counterparts. A pragmatic approach, seeking to optimize production costs through solutions consulted from the outset with construction companies, and based on automation and repetition of certain elements, allows us to control costs while ensuring harmony and beauty of details.
The "small wood-frame building" is a model for the intermediate market segment - affordable housing of good quality. The realization of the buildings will take place mainly on the territory of Valais, optionally also in the French-speaking pre-Alps.
The companies & people behind this Model:
Nicolas Rossier Architect
Mr. Nicolas Rossier
rue de la Pogyre 18
3979 Grône VS
Author Practice
Buchard Bois
Mr. Florent Buchard
Rue de l'Ancienne Pointe 24
CH-1920 Martigny
Manufacturer
illustrations
image avec l'aimable permission de Jason Goodman — unsplash.com/@jasongoodman_youxventures
for our customers
With the "Small Timber Frame Building", we help you to make the most of a multitude of sites that are not necessarily of particular interest due to their size and/or shape. By using a pre-designed "typical" building (Model), you can spread the planning costs while optimizing the quality/price ratio for your clients thanks to solutions elaborated directly with the construction company.
Pension funds building multiple buildings in a given area will benefit from Praefabrica's "pre-design" approach, which reduces time, optimizes costs and ensures the well-being of future residents.
Building to more rigorous principles translates into added value for your end customers and contributes to your company's good reputation in the local market.
Choosing a partner who is actively engaged in finding solutions to everyday needs will not only make the daily lives of future residents more enjoyable, but will also help you become a notable player committed to sustainability and the region.
An understanding of the needs of the residents and how to create spaces that are comfortable to live in are important criteria in our choice of partner architects. This means that your investment is developed by a reputable architectural firm.
Here are some major advantages of Praefabrica's pre-design approach
- most of the planning work is done well in advance
- reduced time from the moment of land acquisition to the handing over of the work
- faster application for authorization
- flexible implementation logic on virtually any terrain
- The project developers have enough time to develop a well thought-out object in detail.
In addition, the close cooperation with the construction companies minimizes the risk of changes and delays in the implementation phase.
In addition, Praefabrica can offer you additional tools to meet demand, ultimately allowing buildings to be designed dynamically according to the interests and needs of future customers.
These include:
- various on-line and off-line configurators adapted to the project
- dynamic visualization tools
- tools for managing customer requests
* Please contact us for an individual offer.
We don't just present you with an architectural project, we accompany you all the way, from the idea, through the realization of the first building, to the deployment of future communities.
for the community
We don't know, until we start a project, what the form, the materiality, the details, the atmosphere will be. But we do know how to go about it - together with the client - to achieve a result that will prove itself in the long term.
A good understanding of the needs of the community involved will be the basis for the development of the specifications. In parallel, an analysis of references: a number of realized and unrealized projects, more or less known, but all considered as having an exceptional value by the architectural community, allow to learn by example and to take advantage of the knowledge accumulated by architects over the decades. A few of them will be presented here. From the outset, future contractors and subcontractors are also invited to participate in the development of the project and to give their opinion on how best to build affordable, yet beautiful and robust structures.
In order to respond dynamically to the demands of the future tenants, Praefabrica introduces a modular approach, allowing the themes addressed by the community to be introduced, analyzed, responded to and implemented: each theme can be translated into a specific type of space, whether it is a private room in an apartment, a public space or an outdoor space; this one will be created or improved and itself translated in the form of components and descriptions in the Model, in such a way as to be integrated into each of the future Buildings according to their needs.
The platform allows to receive proposals and remarks online in a simple way (in the form of submissions and/or forum), and takes care, together with the project partners, of the management and prioritization of the topics.
One of the major advantages of using Praefabrica's pre-design approach for your housing projects is the reduced time between the moment of land acquisition and the handover of the work.
Since the planning work is done well in advance and the Model follows a flexible implementation logic on virtually any plot of land, the authors of the project have enough time to develop a well thought-out object, the application for authorization will be obtained more quickly, while the future tenants will be able to move in sooner. In addition, the close cooperation with the construction companies minimizes the risk of changes and delays in the implementation phase.
As a private customer, you benefit from Praefabrica's "pre-design" approach, which allows you to reduce lead times, optimize costs and focus on the choices that really matter in the realization of your future home.
By choosing a Praefabrica Model for your future home, you benefit from the best approach to fast, quality construction:
- a basic project carefully designed by a renowned local architect
- spaces and plans adapted to your needs and the layout of the site
- a wide choice of finishes
- a building system validated and ready for implementation by a partner construction company
- reliable cost and time estimates
The architectural design of the Model draws on the many years of experience of the Author Architect and the many specialist partners involved in the project. Its style is inspired by local customs and traditions. In the case of this Model, traditional Valais architecture combined with the latest innovations in the timber industry are the guiding principles.
Working with renewable materials and current technologies to ensure full living comfort while respecting the environment is a matter of course.
Here are some major advantages of Praefabrica's pre-design approach
- most of the planning work is done well in advance
- reduced time from the moment of land acquisition to the handing over of the work
- faster application for authorization
- flexible implementation logic on virtually any terrain
- The project developers have enough time to develop a well thought-out object in detail.
In addition, the close cooperation with the construction companies minimizes the risk of changes and delays in the implementation phase.
One of the major advantages of using Praefabrica's pre-design approach for your housing projects is the reduced time between the moment of land acquisition and the handover of the work.
Since the planning work is done well in advance and the Model follows a flexible implementation logic on virtually any plot of land, the authors of the project have enough time to develop a well thought-out object, the application for authorization will be obtained more quickly, while the future tenants will be able to move in sooner. In addition, the close cooperation with the construction companies minimizes the risk of changes and delays in the implementation phase.
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