[Australia] Andrew Maynard

[The Donn]

Just spotted some more from Andrew today on Arch Daily! Really cool house!

http://www.archdaily.com/19909/barro...rd-architects/

[andymaynard]

Thanks for the plug Donn. Much appreciated. BTW AMA is now on twitter. You can keep up to date with all of us at AMA here http://twitter.com/AndrewMaynard

[simon seasons]

Originally Posted by primocordara

interesting, Eucalyptus are planted all over Uruguay, brought from Australia 100 years ago, but it is hard to use for construction, tends to bend...

Just checking this thread and found this from Primocorda. (does that mean 'best rope')

Most hardwoods and Eucalyptus especially, need to be kiln dried for it not to warp. The best processes involve washing the milled timber in steam first and it must be stacked with spreaders and then strapped in piles about the height of a container. It is then dried for several days in a sealed room at temperatures that vary according to the moisture content. It is then put out in covered stacks to rehydrate at normal air pressure.
In the old days it used to be air dried but only the best timber came from the bottom of the stacks so kiln drying in strapped stacks was invented.

Onya Andrew Maynard, (did you go to North Sydney Boys?)

[primocordara]

Originally Posted by simon seasons

Just checking this thread and found this from Primocorda. (does that mean 'best rope')

Most hardwoods and Eucalyptus especially, need to be kiln dried for it not to warp. The best processes involve washing the milled timber in steam first and it must be stacked with spreaders and then strapped in piles about the height of a container. It is then dried for several days in a sealed room at temperatures that vary according to the moisture content. It is then put out in covered stacks to rehydrate at normal air pressure.
In the old days it used to be air dried but only the best timber came from the bottom of the stacks so kiln drying in strapped stacks was invented.

Onya Andrew Maynard, (did you go to North Sydney Boys?)

JAJA (LOL) ! Primo means first in italian, and yes Cordara comes from something like "rope makers" (corda is rope in italian).
Is eucaliptus Hardwood there? Here it is considered soft, with woods from the amazon like "Lapacho" being used as hard...
Now we are having some "industrialised" Eucaliptus, generaly they treat it and glue it in thin strips like "finger joints" to avoid it from bending.

[simon seasons]

Apologies Andrew for high-jacking your thread. Perhaps Primocordara, we should move this discussion to another thread, if it goes any further.
I would imagine that your soft eucalyptus would be young trees that are used as laminate. We also do that with plantation timbers that are thinned out, but we usually use true softwoods such as pine. The eucalyptus that is mature, at least 100 years, is very hard and is used mainly for furniture. There are some extremely hard and now protected hardwood trees that used to used for railway sleepers and the like that are called 'iron barks' that will blunt axes.

[Zxath]

On the market at the moment, is his high profile 'Tattoo House'.


Quite dated IMO................. within a couple of years of completion!....


For Sale;
http://www.domain.com.au/Public/Prop...did=2008048732