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Frame House I
LOCATION
COPENHAGEN, DENMARK
PROGRAM
PRIVATE HOUSE
YEAR
2021
STATUS
COMPLETED
Frame house I is a single-family house situated in the old part of Copenhagen's southern harbor, originally inhabited by the dockworkers. The area is characterized by an ensemble of small scale buildings; workshops and living units of self built houses and architectural experiments. The infill-house is tucked in between two existing buildings with three wooden frames spanning in between the existing structures. The house is a reinterpretation of a traditional Danish half-timbered house and our first project exploring the idea of a structural frame system independent of the climate screen. The facade is mounted on the structural frames, allowing for future changes or replacements of facades due to renovation, change in function, or a desire for different window openings. After being prepared in the workshop, the bearing timber structure was assembled at full height within 2 days without the use of metal nails or screws. The timber joints vary according to the need of compression and tension forces, including both mortise and tenon joints, as well as embedded steel fittings attached with steel dowels to create a column free floor plan in the ground floor. The large windows are placed on the outside of the timber structure, giving the impression of looking directly through the wooden structure and out into the open air.
