A house made with natural materials in Yokohama / 横浜市泉区【自然素材の家】 Part 7
Finally! The exterior stucco has dried and been completed, the scaffolding is down as well. Look at that Continue reading “Smooooooooth and shiny つやっつやの漆喰壁”
A house made with natural materials in Yokohama / 横浜市泉区【自然素材の家】 Part 7
Finally! The exterior stucco has dried and been completed, the scaffolding is down as well. Look at that Continue reading “Smooooooooth and shiny つやっつやの漆喰壁”
A house made with natural materials in Yokohama / 横浜市泉区【自然素材の家】 Part 6
Now we are done with the base coat of the exterior. It is looking very much close to completion! It needs to be left to dry for about Continue reading “What’s under the floor モコモコであったかい家”
A house made with natural materials in Yokohama / 横浜市泉区【自然素材の家】 Part 5
Konnichiwa. Today we placed solid cedar boards underneath the eave soffit outside (where the roof edges are stretching). In this project, we paint all the wooden parts that is exposed to the elements with the Continue reading “Waterproofing – Lath – Waterproofing – Steel netting – Plaster – Carbon coating – Stucco 杉板に杉色を塗る”
A house made with natural materials in Yokohama / 横浜市泉区【自然素材の家】 Part 4
Hi all, I hope you are all having a good weekend.
Again this is a post about the other day when we’ve done some base for the waterproofing work etc. Like we did for the roof, we worked on the vent layer in the walls so that it prevents the heat from outside from going inside and the moisture in the walls have somewhere to escape to.
A house made with natural materials in Yokohama / 横浜市泉区【自然素材の家】 Part 3
Apologies for the not-up-to-date post, today’s post is about the day we had the roofing done on. The material we used is called galvalume steel plates that laid on horizontally by the roofers.
Continue reading “A house that feels good itself feels good for humans too コンビニのカッパを着せないで”
A house made with natural materials in Yokohama / 横浜市泉区【自然素材の家】 Part 2
Hello there, we are happy to announce the completion of the Tatekata. The pine beams we worked on manually (not pre-cut materials) have fit perfectly with each other as well. Very happy.
A house made with natural materials in Yokohama / 横浜市泉区【自然素材の家】 Part 1
Hello there! We have started a new project; A newly built 2-storey timber frame house. As it is mentioned earlier, we won’t use any “new building materials” *1 such as glued laminated timer, plywood, veneer covering, exterior siding or glass wool.