Wood Carving Workshop in Val Gardena, Italy

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Cross-Laminated Timber Building

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.