Inspirational Glulam House Interior Designs
Custom structural glulam beams add beauty and performance to ceilings and other architectural features with their custom radii and profiles that enable cathedral vaults and organic architectural forms.
With VIGAM, an oak glulam designed specifically for structural purposes in Europe, architects can easily create eco-friendly curtain walling. Both decorative and structural, VIGAM is an ideal way to build modern wood houses.
1. Living Room
Glulam (glued laminated timber) is an alternative form of timber framing. It offers increased load-bearing capacity compared to traditional wooden beams, opening up opportunities for innovative design. Curved glulam beams add visual interest by blurring the distinction between walls and ceilings; in this lake cottage in Quebec Canada designed by NSDA Architects using this structural element as part of their design; they extend from the floor right up to the ceiling where they’re covered by plywood sheets for an open feeling effect that helps creates roomy living spaces with outdoor feel.
This lake cottage uses glulam construction to emphasize the site’s natural surroundings. Beach and mountain homes often employ this form of housing because its design blends in harmoniously with their environment, while this lake cottage mirrors the forest canopy that covers it. While traditional cottages might support the belief that their closer integration means less environmental impact, this design instead creates distance while adding directionality.
Outside, this house’s glulam exterior appears as though it were draped across the landscape like a tarpaulin; inside however, its interior features more sophisticated aesthetic. A curved glulam ceiling adds visual interest in the great room while red steel staircase bracing complements exposed engineered wood on walls and cabinets.
Glulam is an eco-friendly material, easy to recycle and requires less energy for its manufacture than concrete. Furthermore, its prefabricated nature helps minimize construction waste and its environmental footprint. From beach homes to mountain cabins and beyond – whether beach homes or mountain cabins – wood offers innovative design possibilities that create comfortable and healthy living environments. Wood acts as an insulator and regulates both air temperature and humidity, contributing towards healthy indoor environments by lowering noise levels, stress levels and fatigue levels in interior environments.
2. Bedroom
In this bedroom designed by NSDA Architects, large windows and vaulted ceiling accentuate its natural forest setting while wood ceiling helps blur distinctions between walls and structures.
On a barrier island in Sarasota Bay, this small single family home was designed to incorporate its site. The structure’s form was inspired by live oak limbs swaying in the breeze. A similar principle was utilized when designing its interiors; curving glulam beams are attached directly to concrete slabs below and extend upward through ceiling.
This project creates a modern twist on traditional tent-like cabins by creating more sustainable cottages built along lakes with larger loft spaces to accommodate families of four.
3. Kitchen
A collection of Douglas-fir glulam beams and tongue-and-groove 1×6 fir decking provides the centerpiece in this coastal mountain home designed by NSDA Architects. These design elements help link all three spaces on the first floor at Armitage Residence; with each space framed by its neighbor’s structurally unique geometry.
A row of clerestory windows helps fill the kitchen workstations with natural light while a continuous tread steel staircase connects it with the living room a few feet away. White cabinetry adds brightness and provides contrast against wood flooring and hand-hewn beams; bold swaths of cobalt blue add vibrancy reminiscent of its seafront location.
Staircases can be difficult for homeowners to use to express their creativity, but Texas Custom Construction’s Hill Country home doesn’t shy away from taking risks with its staircase design. Employing glulam, prefabricated stair units and aluminum joinery – including inverted V patterns and open troughs which acknowledge local wind conditions – the stairs here make an impressionful statement with their innovative use.
On a barrier island, this small single family house draws its inspiration from the curving lines of an oak hammock nearby. To mimic their form, curved glulam beams were installed as walls and ceilings, blurring any distinction between walls and ceilings. A split truss roof provides shade during summer while still letting low winter sunlight in via an external pergola shaded by split truss roof clerestory windows; inside features both modern and rustic materials help connect it with its rugged landscape – wire-brushed reclaimed walnut floors, black fiber cement panels, birch plywood walls/ceilings/ceilings/ceilings/ceilings/ceilings/hand-crafted tiles are all included among many others.
4. Bathroom
Glulam, or glued laminated timber, is a structural wooden system with the capacity to form larger segments and unique shapes. Commonly found as roof support or framing material, but also found within residential interior designs which make a statement on their own – these projects often use glulam to define and connect living spaces while showing off its rustic charm.
At the bottom of the main gable is an intimate dining room featuring engineered glulam beams and tongue and groove 1×6 Douglas-fir decking to form an arched vaulted ceiling. Red steel cabinetry recalls barnlike structures of nearby cottages while vibrant swaths of cobalt blue bring home its coastal mountain location.
At the top of this sloping house is an extravagant bathroom defined by wood slats covering walls and ceiling, highlighted with barn door hardware and cast iron tub. An eye-catching custom staircase made of glulam beams with metal railing completes its open floor plan aesthetic in Hill Country home.
At the peak of an asymmetrical roofline sits a studio filled with natural light streaming in through its clerestory windows. Light wooden surfaces and minimal accessories help make this space feel like an idyllic Scandinavian cabin escape.
NSDA Architects created an intriguing connection between the upper and lower floors of this lake retreat by creating a series of open spaces connected by sloping glulam structures. A walkway leads directly to a kitchen which features engineered glulam framing with Baltic Birch plywood walls for an inviting transition. It was an effortless design choice from start to finish!
5. Study
At the center of Contau Lake lies this peaceful retreat, serving as a launchpad for an extensive private trail network. NSDA Architects designed an open concept interior space to complement its soaring Douglas Fir glulam beams and decking, prioritizing visual interest over comfort for maximum visual impact and visual comfort.
Glulam’s adaptable nature makes it the ideal material for creating structures that blend in with natural settings like beaches and mountains. Engineered wood construction materials like glulam allow architects to craft structures in harmony with the surrounding natural elements while simultaneously creating healthy living spaces and employing sustainable building practices.
Cross-laminated timber (CLT) offers designers an endless variety of species, giving them the flexibility to design custom and eye-catching ceilings and architectural elements with it. Coffered ceiling patterns or exposed trusses, CLT boasts distinctive color tones and grain patterns for an eye-catching aesthetic in any space; additionally glulam beams add depth and dimension in rooms with vaulted ceilings, barrel vaults or domed roofs.
To create a strong, long-term connection between structural members, glulam beams are often joined using steel plates and bolts in addition to traditional mortise and tenon joints. These steel connections may be painted, powder-coated, or finished to match the beam’s appearance while mortises and tenons require more precise joint dimensions in order to provide optimal strength and stability.
Properly installed and maintained glulam structures can stand the test of time for decades. Their longevity can be attributed to high-quality materials, skilled craftsmanship, and meticulous detailing of each component. Furthermore, life cycle analyses of glulam compare favorably against concrete and steel in terms of environmental impacts during production and transportation; in conjunction with durability NSDA Architects also utilized low impact materials throughout this home to reduce impactful impacts.