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Roebuck Boathouse

A timber frame boat house, overlooking the river Cam. Designed using Japanese joinery techniques, the structure uses no mechanical fixings.

 

Wood Awards 2023 - Small Project Winner

AJ Small Projects 2023 - Sustainability Award Winner

RIBA East Small Project of the Year Award 2023 - Winner

RIBA East Award 2023 - Winner

CFCI Awards 2023 - Commendation & Craftsmanship Award

 

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Our client, a close friend of the practice, lives in a Grade II listed house with frontage onto the River Cam. The timber structure has been constructed to house their motor launch, its simplicity underpinned by the use of no mechanical fixings, screws, nails or bolts.

Clad in a copper roof, the frame takes influence from ‘Sashimono’ and ‘Kumiko’ techniques of building furniture utilising both simple and complex wooden joinery without the need for nails. A repeating structure that minimises the variety of joints, standard timber sizes and pre-fabrication before moving onto site has aided in reducing embodied carbon. Each timber member was carefully marked, assembled and raised over a long weekend between a motley crew of friends.

2023 | Cambridge

Photographs by Matthew Smith

Roebuck Boathouse

A timber frame boat house, overlooking the river Cam. Designed using Japanese joinery techniques, the structure uses no mechanical fixings.

 

Wood Awards 2023 - Small Project Winner

AJ Small Projects 2023 - Sustainability Award Winner

RIBA East Small Project of the Year Award 2023 - Winner

RIBA East Award 2023 - Winner

CFCI Awards 2023 - Commendation & Craftsmanship Award

 

More Information
Our client, a close friend of the practice, lives in a Grade II listed house with frontage onto the River Cam. The timber structure has been constructed to house their motor launch, its simplicity underpinned by the use of no mechanical fixings, screws, nails or bolts.

Clad in a copper roof, the frame takes influence from ‘Sashimono’ and ‘Kumiko’ techniques of building furniture utilising both simple and complex wooden joinery without the need for nails. A repeating structure that minimises the variety of joints, standard timber sizes and pre-fabrication before moving onto site has aided in reducing embodied carbon. Each timber member was carefully marked, assembled and raised over a long weekend between a motley crew of friends.

2023 | Cambridge

Photographs by Matthew Smith

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