fir tree stud stacking system kinds natural cave-like sauna
Anders Berensson Architects stacks picket beams in an previous barn’s cabin to type a thermal mass sauna in Ulefoss, Norway. The venture was commissioned by well-known photographer and sauna connoisseur Mikkel Aaland. Drawing from the Finnish ‘Savusauna’ mannequin, the design shapes in a cave-like formation assembling the wooden studs organically, permitting the thermal mass of the timber to soak up warmth and launch it when bathing.
Reinventing the construction advert the constructing physics of the fashionable Nordic sauna, the group designs womb-like natural form to supply the wooden construction with out the usage of glue like in plywood and glulam. The sauna’s dice stacks two-by-three-inch fir tree studs distanced by 4 toes and subtracted right into a cave-like form. The straight-cut beams are jigged sawed and sanded right into a clean floor, put collectively to compose varied seating spots in three ranges.
all photographs by Mikkel Aaland
standalone picket construction matches a sauna into a contemporary home
The Stockholm-based architectural studio reference Miikkels’ e book on saunas, ‘Sweat’, and ‘Savusauna’ for the construction’s ultimate composition heating the entire room upfront and letting the heat of the stones and wooden in recent oxygen air when the warmth supply is put out. Avoiding thick insulation and plastic sheets or different chemical merchandise, the skilled warmth is immediately emitted from the range or the charged thermal mass of the house. Wanting again on the historical past of sauna typology and its building ideas, the design incorporates a standalone construction into a contemporary home. Optimizing the thermal mass of the picket stacked formation the construction serves as a warmth battery. The developed system of stacked studs creates a big uncovered wooden floor charged with warmth upfront and launched when bathing within the sauna.
natural formation assembled by stacked wooden studs
the picket beams overhang to type an armrest
