Interior vs. Exterior: a Blurred Line
Blurring the boundary between interior and exterior has been a popular design choice for successful architects for many years now. There are many products that allow a user to completely open up a wall so that the interior rooms essentially become part of the patio space. La Cantina doors (http://www.lacantinadoors.com/) are a prime example of one of these products. With their multi-panel folding and sliding door systems, they can easily blur the line between inside and ou
Cross Laminated Timber
I was recently introduced to a mass timber construction material called Cross Laminated Timber or CLT. This system basically takes dimensional lumber (2x4, 2x6, 2x12, etc), and glues them together, similar to how a glulam beam is made of stacked boards that are glued and laminated together. CLT is kind of like a horizontal glulam beam, but the primary feature that makes it interesting is that each layer of dimensional lumber is staggered and rotated perpendicular to the lay
