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Six gable roofs inform interior layout of Haus Gables

Six gable roofs inform interior layout of Haus Gables
Haus Gables measures just 18 ft wide, a similar dimension to single-wide mobile homes
Haus Gables measures just 18 ft wide, a similar dimension to single-wide mobile homes
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Award-winning architect Jennifer Bonner from MALL has created a unique doll house-inspired family home, built on a narrow block of land
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Award-winning architect Jennifer Bonner from MALL has created a unique doll house-inspired family home, built on a narrow block of land
Haus Gables is a contemporary two story home is built with 87 cross-laminated timber panels
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Haus Gables is a contemporary two story home is built with 87 cross-laminated timber panels
The 2,200 sq ft (204 sq m) home features an asymmetrical roofline, incorporating six gable roofs
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The 2,200 sq ft (204 sq m) home features an asymmetrical roofline, incorporating six gable roofs
Haus Gables measures just 18 ft wide, a similar dimension to single-wide mobile homes
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Haus Gables measures just 18 ft wide, a similar dimension to single-wide mobile homes
Haus Gables is a two bedroom family home, featuring separate living and dining areas
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Haus Gables is a two bedroom family home, featuring separate living and dining areas
Upstairs master bedroom in Haus Gables
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Upstairs master bedroom in Haus Gables
Haus Gables was built using pre-cut cross-laminated timber panels, which make up all exterior and interior walls, floors, and roofing
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Haus Gables was built using pre-cut cross-laminated timber panels, which make up all exterior and interior walls, floors, and roofing
The interior design boasts a mix of classic and non-traditional materials, including bright colored vinyl flooring and side-walls
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The interior design boasts a mix of classic and non-traditional materials, including bright colored vinyl flooring and side-walls 
Over 20 windows are scattered strategically throughout the home, allowing natural light and air to filter through
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Over 20 windows are scattered strategically throughout the home, allowing natural light and air to filter through
Faux marble tile finishes in the bathrooms
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Faux marble tile finishes in the bathrooms 
Haus Gables includes an outdoor terrace
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Haus Gables includes an outdoor terrace
Second entrance to the outdoor terrace
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Second entrance to the outdoor terrace
Haus Gables is located in Atlanta, Georgia
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Haus Gables is located in Atlanta, Georgia 
Haus Gables includes an underground garage
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Haus Gables includes an underground garage
Haus Gables features a stunning black marble modern kitchen
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Haus Gables features a stunning black marble modern kitchen
The unique roofline of Haus Gables is used to structure and organize the home’s interior space and layout
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The unique roofline of Haus Gables is used to structure and organize the home’s interior space and layout
The use of the CLT technology allowed the home to be assembled onsite in just 14 days
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The use of the CLT technology allowed the home to be assembled onsite in just 14 days
Haus Gables incorporates a mix of unconventional materials
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Haus Gables incorporates a mix of unconventional materials 
The interior design boasts a mix of classic and non-traditional materials, including natural wood, marble, painted tiles and vinyl
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The interior design boasts a mix of classic and non-traditional materials, including natural wood, marble, painted tiles and vinyl
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Award-winning architect Jennifer Bonner from MALL has created a unique doll house-inspired family home, built on a narrow block of land. Dubbed Haus Gables, the contemporary two story home is built with 87 cross-laminated timber panels and measures just 18 ft (5.5 m) wide, a similar dimension to single-wide mobile homes.

The 2,200 sq ft (204 sq m) home is located in Atlanta, Georgia, and features an asymmetrical roofline, incorporating six gable roofs. The unusual design is a result of a long-term research project from Bonner, which uses the unique roofline to structure and organize the home's interior space and layout.

Haus Gables is located in Atlanta, Georgia
Haus Gables is located in Atlanta, Georgia 

"A long-standing research project on roof typologies found in the American South informed this proof-of-concept," says Bonner. "Here, the roof plan establishes rooms, catwalks, and double height spaces in the interior by aligning these spaces to ridges and valleys in the roof above. In this case, the floorplan is a result of the roof."

Haus Gables is a two bedroom family home, featuring separate living and dining areas, stunning black marble modern kitchen, two bathrooms, upstairs bedrooms, a study, outdoor terrace and an underground garage, laundry and wet room.

Haus Gables features a stunning black marble modern kitchen
Haus Gables features a stunning black marble modern kitchen

The home was built using pre-cut cross-laminated timber (CLT) panels, which make up all exterior and interior walls, floors, and roofing. The use of the CLT technology allowed the home to be assembled onsite in just 14 days.

"Custom-cut, hoisted into place, and assembled in fourteen days' time, the CLT in Haus Gables enables a solid house that eschews stick frame construction," says Bonner. "Structurally inventive, the panels also promote a monolithic view of the material from the domestic interior."

The interior design boasts a mix of classic and non-traditional materials, including natural wood, marble and painted tile finishes in the kitchen, bathrooms and hallways. Other rooms feature bright colored vinyl flooring and side-walls and part of the home's exterior is clad in faux-bricks made of stucco. In addition, a collection of over 20 windows are scattered strategically throughout the home, allowing natural light and air to filter through.

The use of the CLT technology allowed the home to be assembled onsite in just 14 days
The use of the CLT technology allowed the home to be assembled onsite in just 14 days

"Haus Gables undertakes an old tradition of faux finishing in the American South, historically stemming from an inability to afford precious materials, and the subsequent desire to 'fake it'," says Bonner. "With the use of unconventional materials and an unusual roof design, Haus Gables is an exploration of new ways that form, spatial organization, and material might function in a home."

Earlier this year Jennifer Bonner was awarded the Architectural League Prize for Young Architects + Designers, recognizing the outstanding and provocative work by young practitioners in North America.

Source: MALL via Metropolis

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4 comments
4 comments
McDesign
I see ONE electrical outlet - by the bed. How do these folks get away without meeting building codes?
Username
That is one ugly house
pat wilkinson
No insulation or ventilation, where is the pipework and the wiring. All that solid timber what a waste all that energy producing that much prepared timber for no good purpose that I can see. CLT should be banned
Pat Wilkinson
Douglas Bennett Rogers
This is actually a "green" building if it can be kept substantially longer that the trees used to make it.