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Speculative House, Buderim, Queensland
This speculative house was designed to provide a model for a low cost timber alternative to the fully tailor-made house. It displays an effective architectural and engineering simplicity, with deliberate and clear organisation of materials, functions and structure.
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Hardware store, Tullamarine, Victoria
This complex consciously displays a diversity of different timber based products, structural forms and jointing techniques. Solid timber is used in bolted columns, framing and trusses and plywood in diaphragms, shear walls and external cladding.
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Board Store, Tumut, NSW
This is one of the largest nail gusset plate portal frame buildings constructed from glue laminated softwood in Australia.
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Store building, Mt. Gambier, SA
. Economy governed much of the design for timber industrial buildings such as this. However, the confidence and technical skill in its design, the assured detailing and the fine 2:1 width to height proportion of this simple form endow this building with a strength and scale uncommon ifor buildings of this type..
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Store building, Clayton, Victoria
In the Clayton building, the columns and rafters are box sections that house between each other at the main moment joints. The regular lines of deep plywood purlins, set between the portals, establish rhythms in the roof and soften the light from the strips of translucent roof sheet.
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Store Building, Cardiff
The Cardiff building is the longest clean span timber portal building in Australia.
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St Andrew’s Anglican Church, Gracemere, Qld
A multi purpose church with curvaceous and segmented timber portal structure and veneered ceiling panels
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Church, Dural, NSW
This building is the first stage of a church complex. The project had a limited budget and costs determined much of the design. The decision to use a curved haunch timber portal frame as the primary structure came about through early cost management studies.
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Sunny Hills Country Club
This Sunny Hill Country Club Hotel was built from timber for two main reasons: timber has an established association with relaxation and leisure and it is an easy to use and economic building material.
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Launceston Swim Centre, Glen Dhu, Tasmania
The use of timber to replace the original steel design of this swimming centre resulted in a much more economic and aesthetically pleasing building.
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Factory Building, Legana, Tasmania
Externally, this building looks little different to the thousands of portal factory and store buildings found in any of Australia's industrial estates. However, it is a timber building, even though it was originally designed as a steel one.
The cause of the change was cost. The timber portal came in about $5,000 cheaper than the steel alternative and the builder could erect structure with his own carpentry team.
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