Kr?any Barn, Central Bohemia, Czech Republic, Central Bohemian Region, Czech Republic Timber Structure, Architecture Photos
Kr?any Barn in Central Bohemia
20 Sep 2022
Architects: HAMR Hu? Architektury Martin Rajni?
Location: St?edo?eský kraj, Czech Republic

Photos: Andrea Thiel Lhotáková
Kr?any Barn, Czech Republic
The walls of the Kr?any Barn are built in the lumber stack method (beam ? sticker ? beam). Nothing is nailed together! The beams are laid freely across each other. Nothing is sawed! The sawmill supplies four- and five-meter beams, whatever is excess can simply stick out at the corners. Stickers are made from three layers of laths ? in place of the middle layer, we place at the corner a transverse beam.

And look ? it?s standing all by itself! Floor, ceiling, roof framework is formed from beams in a coffering system of transverse beams with their side-runners tied in place with twisted bailing wire. The roof covering is from heat-fused plywood.
The building stands on stakes of tree-trunks positioned on oak slabs. Brace the building with steel wire.

And we have our woodshed. That?s all!!!
In Kr?any, we tried to go further on in the development of hollow lumber stack, even the roof structure is here done somewhat differently from (and better than) the barn in Maxov.

The covering is from heat-fused plywood. At the investor?s request, part of the barn has interior glazing, which can deal with the considerable changes produced in the building?s dimensions thr...