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2013-07-04

Wood Carving Workshop in Val Gardena, Italy

An extraordinary project of a new workshop for wood carving art was realized in Val Gardena, South Tyrol.

As the triangulated facade could be used only partially for load application, the building was a great challenge for the responsible timber construction engineer.

Structure

The facade of the building brings to mind carvings in a block of wood. The structure can also be appreciated from inside.

The exhibition and sales rooms are on the first floor. The workshop for sculptors and painters (painting wooden figures) is located on the upper floor. In addition, a large apartment was set up in the attic.

Another difficulty for the structural engineers was the fact that the first floor includes only a few walls, and only a few walls in the building are on top of each other. Schrentewein & Partner found the following solution: they designed almost every wall in the upper floor as a wall‑like deep beam consisting of cross‑laminated timber.

The longest wall has a length of 44.9 ft. The walls on the upper floor carry the loading from the floor and ceiling of that floor and transfer the loading to walls and columns made of steel round pipes on the first floor.

The ceilings, like the load-bearing interior walls, consist of cross‑laminated timber. They were designed as continuous beams to keep the deflections within the limits. The ceiling is concentrically supported by several columns on the first floor.

As stiffening walls are missing in the first floor, the ceiling above was built to be very stiff (t = 7.8 in). It transfers the stiffening loads onto the staircase core, which is asymmetrically arranged and made of reinforced concrete.

Structural Engineering Lignaconsult Schrentewein & Partner GmbH
Bolzano, Italy
lignaconsult.net
Construction Timber Construction
Ligno System KG of Sacco M. & Co.
Ortisei in Val Gardena, Italy
www.lignosystem.it
Architect bergmeister architekten
Brixen, Italy; Vienna, Austria
www.bergmeisterwolf.it
Investor Ulrich Perathoner KG-SAS
Ortisei in Val Gardena, Italy
www.ulpe.com


Project Specifications

Model data

Number of Nodes 1066
Number of Lines 1786
Number of Members 1243
Number of Surfaces 161
Number of Load Cases 4
Number of Result Combinations 2
Total Weight 434.657 tons
Dimensions 142.86 x 65.87 x 33.42 feet
Program Version 5.01.00

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