Wooden-framed Residential Building in Cologne
The partially basemented house, approximately 1000 cubic metres in volume, was constructed entirely of wood on concrete foundations. Construction: larch timber frame; spruce ceiling joists; afzelia cornice. Walls: double-insulated timber frame walls; clad externally with Angers slate in a double-lap pattern or sheathed with pine boards. Interior walls on the ground floor with lime plaster on reed mats, on the upper floor with pine board sheathing (service core made of pumice stone masonry). Ceilings: reinforced concrete basement ceiling; ground floor ceiling as a sheathed timber beam ceiling; upper floor ceiling plastered on reed mats.
