Built in the Cascade Mountains near Granite Falls in Washinton State is a prototype installation that explores prefabricated construction techniques. Anderson Anderson Architecture designed the residential structure and combined a prefabricated steel structural frame with a structural insulated panel system (SIPS) to envelope all of the non-glass areas. The Cantilever House is the first of a series of projects to explore the efficiency and affordability of this construction method.
The objective of this project is to produce a low-cost, high-quality, manufactured building system that is easily adaptable to specific sites and programs. All material and structural systems are selected from relatively common, non-proprietary systems with multiple manufacturers so that built-in competition encourages low costs and long-term availability of components. Coordinating and combining existing manufactured systems distributes capital investment in system detailing, inventory and prototyping among a group of sophisticated manufacturers with already established, project-specific customization and component packaging and delivery systems. By creatively combining a small number of manufactured systems into one comprehensive system approach, there is no need to begin a costly design of an entirely new system, and there is the certainty of long-term applicability and wide-spread industry support.
The current system and prototypes are part of the architects’ long-term series of prototype buildings that experiment with the creative coordination of existing, standardized systems into comprehensive approaches to low-cost, highly adaptable structures. In association with various manufacturers, the architects have designed and built a number of prototypes as a design/build/research cycle.
The design process involves drawing, model and mock-up building, design and engineering collaboration with contractors, and the full-scale realization of prototype structures built for individual clients or developers.
Anderson Anderson has built extensively in the Pacific Northwest, and has also completed numerous projects in other parts of the United States and in Japan. Best known for original, finely crafted modern homes personally developed for individual sites and clients, we also work with numerous business clients, and with public and institutional clients on projects ranging from corporate headquarters and retail projects, to churches and university buildings. Working directly with manufacturers and government agencies in the United States and Japan, Anderson Anderson has designed and built numerous prefabrication systems creatively exploring new construction technologies and affordable building methods. For more information about this project or to get in touch with the company we invite you to visit the links below.
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