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We have a passion for clarity—transforming complex conditions into spaces of elemental beauty and enduring value.

We work with our clients and partners to solve problems, reveal insights, and create inviting architecture for every place and purpose.

WAECHTER ARCHITECTURE



The All-Wood Studio






In many ways the economic and ecological rationales for mass timber have advanced beyond our discipline’s formal, functional, and experiential design explorations. Constraints of program, pro-forma, zoning and budget, to name a few, have assumed solutions focused primarily on material efficiency and demanded the production of hybrid structures that require multiple assembly systems. This studio instead prioritizes singular systems to seek out more substantive and integrated built results, exploring the potential for new mass timber projects to remain programmatically flexible, while simultaneously experientially and spatially unique.

Students are uniquely positioned to challenge the architectural and construction profession’s assumptions of mass timber. Working together, the studio expands mass timber’s design vocabulary and experiential potential through new all-wood building prototypes that adapt to the needs and challenges of present and future uses.

This studio kicks off Waechter Architecture’s ongoing work to identify and analyze a series of All-Wood design vocabularies though a USDA Forest Service and Softwood Lumber Board Wood Innovations Grant. 

︎︎︎ University of Oregon

︎︎︎ Fall 2022

︎︎︎ Instructors: Alexis Coir, Judson Moore, William Smith, Ben Waechter





Students’ Work ︎︎︎


Each student project lists the structural approaches they explored. For diagrammatic examples of these types All-Wood structural types, visit the Mass Timber Innovation section for more information.

Ben Janes


Exterior Structure:
None (Cantilever)

Interior Structure:
Cores

Horizontal Structure
Beamless 2-Way Deck




















Ben Hebert


Exterior Structure:
Platform

Interior Structure:
Walls

Horizontal Structure
Beamless 2-Way Deck




















Chelsea Kight


Exterior Structure:
Tilt-Up

Interior Structure:
Walls

Horizontal Structure
Beamless 2-Way Deck























Samuel Wylie


Exterior Structure:
Tilt-Up

Interior Structure:
Cores

Horizontal Structure
Long-Span





















Phebe Davis


Exterior Structure:
Platform

Interior Structure:
Walls

Horizontal Structure
Beamless 2-Way Deck





















Ian Watson


Exterior Structure:
Platform

Interior Structure:
Cores

Horizontal Structure
Long Span





















Ali Lindsey


Exterior Structure:
Tilt-Up

Interior Structure:
Walls

Horizontal Structure
Beamless 1-Way Deck






















Kurtis Netzlof


Exterior Structure:
None (Cantilever)

Interior Structure:
Columns

Horizontal Structure
Beamless 2-Way Deck





















Summer Emiko-Stephens


Exterior Structure:
Platform

Interior Structure:
Cores

Horizontal Structure
Beamless 2-Way Deck





















Steven Cagle


Exterior Structure:
Tilt-Up

Interior Structure:
Walls

Horizontal Structure
Beams & Girders






















Makayla Bruce


Exterior Structure:
Platform

Interior Structure:
Walls

Horizontal Structure
Beamless 1-Way Deck























Tim Matousek


Exterior Structure:
Tilt-Up

Interior Structure:
Walls

Horizontal Structure
Beams & Girders