WOODEN HOUSE made entirely of wood – with persevering durability

The construction industry wants to build sustainable buildings out of wood. But few of these buildings are sustainable because they last for only 60 to 80 years.

The project focuses on the buildings’ verifiable service life as the paramount element of their sustainability. 

Specifically, we have replicated a Danish loghouse from 1668, which so far has endured for 350 years. By replicating the essential structural elements from the historic wood-building technique, it is the project’s hypothesis that our ‘experimental building’ will be able to last at least just as long. These elements include: the use of Danish oak for structural elements and exterior cladding, selectively sawn wood for the various elements and making all joints as wood-in-wood without any type of iron. 

To prove that such a building can be built today – and be affordable at the same time – the project involves the development of CNC-milled joints which can be subsequently mass produced.