working details

A house clad in larchboard and Cor-Ten

The two-/three-storey dwelling is set round a courtyard and, in the words of the architect, 'explores themes of memory and time with cladding of Cor-Ten steel and larch. The forms and the palette of materials echo the disappearing industrial landscape and the urban setting'. A timber-frame construction, with steel members used where appropriate, was chosen to accommodate complex junctions and to make building easier on the small and restricted site. The loft is clad with untreated larch boards, fixed with 6mm gaps between to give a robust, muscular appearance. Flashings and copings are formed in ternecoated steel, chosen after it was realised that zinc, the original choice, would be corroded by run-off from the larch boards. All windows are formed from standard polyester powdercoated steel sections. The loft window has a brise-soleil screen of louvres fabricated from standard industrial decking, welded into a rectangle. The first-floor window is a sloping bay with opening lights. The bathroom on the ground floor has an inward-opening, bottomhung window to provide ventilation and an outer fixed window projecting from it on brackets, glazed with sandblasted 6.4mm laminated glass, to give privacy and security. The outer window lies on the same plane as the Cor-Ten panels and is separated from them by a ventilation gap. The Cor-Ten panels that clad the lower floor were chosen as an industrial material that would weather naturally. They are detailed with protected air gaps to give ventilation behind and to avoid water or condensation collecting on them. The panels are fixed with stainless-steel fixings isolated with neoprene washers. At the base, a Z-shaped angle acts as a collector to drain run-off from the panels. Susan Dawson
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0.4mm terne-coated steel coping on geotextile felt on WBP ply

50mm continuous ventilation with proprietary abutment vent

lead roof covering laid to falls

rooflight

separating membrane on ply and firrings

galv steel louvre frame

plasterboard and skim

vapour control layer on 10mm rigid insulation board

200mm mineral wool insulation quilt packed between 150 x 50mm joists and firrings

polyester powder-coated steel double-glazed window

144 x 22mm sawn larch boards with 6mm air gaps between breather membrane on 12mm WBP ply 150 x 150mm sw frame infilled with 150mm Insulation bans 127 x 76mm UB

vapour control layer on plasterboard and skim

18mm t&g oak boards on 50 K 150mm treated sw joists

loft

polyester powder-coated steel sloping bay window

1,5mm Cor-Ten cladding panel fixed to Cor-Ten cladding rail paired 75 X 150mm bearers bolted together at 600mm crs

timber frame filled with 150mm insulation first floor

outer pane of sandblasted gIa ss polyester powder-coated steel double-glazed window breather membrane on 12mm WBP ply vapour control layer on 13mm plasterboard -and skim

150 x 150mm sw sole plate dpc overlaps dpm Z-shaped Cor-Ten angle bolted back with spacers 20mm rigid insulation

ground floor bathroom 75mm coloured concrete on 75mm rigid Insulation

SECTION THROUGH WEST WALL

dpm on 150mm concrete slab

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breather membrane on 12mm WBP ply 144 x 22mm sawn larch boards with 6mm air gaps between

sw frame infilled with 150mm insulation baits vapour control layer on plasterboard and skim

polyester powder-coated steel window frame

double-glazed opening light

40mm galv steel flats welded into frame at 40mm crs

galv louvre screen formed from Floforge industrial deck components

4mm dia galv steel rods at 100mm crs

100 x 85mm cleats welded to frame and bolted to sw jambs

EXPLODED ISOMETRIC OF LOFT WINDOW 144 x 22mm sawn larch boards with 6mm air gaps between louvre screen of 40mm galv steel flats welded into frame at 40mm crs breather membrane on 12mm WBP ply sw frame Infilled with 150mm insulation batts vapour control layer an plasterboard and skim polyester powder-coated steel window frame double-glazed opening light breather membrane on 12mm WBP ply 1.5 mm Cor-Ten cladding panel fixed to Cor-Ten cladding rail timber frame filled with 150mm insulation vapour control layer on 13mm plasterboard and skim

polyester powder-coated steel window frame

fixed single-glared sand-blasted 6.4mm laminated glass pane double-glazed opening light with aIternative opening positions for ventilation and cleaning

polyester powder-coated steel window frame fixed with brackets to inner frame 4mm dia rods at 100mm crs

polyester powder-coated steel sill

breather membrane on 12mm WBP ply DETAIL SECTION THROUGH LOFT WINDOW 144 x 22mm sawn larch boards with 6mm air gaps between louvre screen of 40mm galv steel flats welded inlo frame at 40mm crs 100 x 85mm cleats welded to frame and bolted to sw jambs DETAIL SECTION THROUGH GROUND FLOOR WINDOW 1.5mm Car-Ten cladding panel fixed to Cor-Ten cladding rail treated sw jamb timber frame filled with 150mm insulation vapour control layer on 13 mm plasterboard and skim

4mm dia rods at 100mm crs

polyester powder-coated steel window Frame

steel frame fixed with brackets to inner frame

polyester powder-coated steel wfndow frame

double-glazed opening light PLAN AT LOFT WINDOW JAMB

fixed single-glazed sand-blasted 6.4mm laminated glass pane PLAN AT GROUND FLOOR WINDOW JAMB

double-glazed opening light

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