Natrufied Architecture

An Amsterdam co-op pushes for more sustainable, amenity-rich affordable housing Community amenities alleviate the stress of small-scale living and foster neighbourly connection at the affordable and social housing cooperative in Amsterdam.

Together with we are working on a lookout tower in the forest of in the municipality of in . With fins into the forest, the water and the swamp, the tower connects to all natural surroundings.

Mikado on its way. At our contractor is putting the structure together for our green facade. The structure is made of recycled bollards. The one meter wide space will be for humans, animals, plants and trees. Humans can use it for balconies, animals will get nest spaces and plants and trees will grow in planters. The roof of the building will collect the rain to water the plants with. Exciting!

MooIJburg 10.10 next to de Warren. Two projects with the focus on building with wood in very different ways. Columns versus clt walls, window frames versus ‘s hybrid wooden window frames, recycled Azobe facade cladding versus and black facade cladding.
All great contributors to building a better world with wood products.

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Next to , our new building, MooIJburg 10.10, is well on its way. In just a few weeks we are up 5 stories with floors and walls and wood frame facades including all doors and windows. In this way within a few weeks time the building is fully weather proof and all work on the interior can be done save from wind and rain.
We love building with !

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Houtsnipperdag 2022

So proud of our Natrufied Architecture team! Together with Metropoolregio Amsterdam we organized a symposium on building with wood. In the almost finished auditorium of Wooncoöperatie De Warren we had alderman Reinier van Dantzig of Amsterdam kick off the afternoon. After a series of talks, we toured de Warren, MooIJburg and Juf Nienke; 3 different showcases of building with wood. The afternoon was topped of with snacks and drinks from Eelke ten Broeke .
Thanks Bob van der Zande , Bjarne Mastenbroek , Chandar van der Zande and Ron de Gruyter for your contributions and Laminated Timber Solutions for the .

Build more wood!

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One more day until . The buildings are awaiting their visitors.

More wood in Amsterdam!
MooIJburg 10.10 is on its way. 2 stories of the full clt structure are up. In a few weeks all 5 stories will be done.

Getting close! The main auditorium for on its way, doors in place and the reclaimed wood for the ‘mikado’ has arrived on site. A few more weeks until the contractor is done.

Facade of MooIJburg 12.06 on its way. With bamboo and Shou Sugi Ban façade cladding and hybrid wooden window frames.

Roof is closed in Delft. Time for interior finishes.

Wooden wave! The roof for this house in Delft is up, weaving into the garden. 😍

Architect and engineer admiring the final result of one of the Arknat shelters of this year. 6 beautiful new shelters by 30 impressive students and !
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Arknat 2022.

Arknat 2022 in Trelleborg

Slowly the back facade of with its recycled wood is appearing. Getting closer the the finish! Just a few more weeks until the new inhabitants can start on their interior work.

This is Stormuren, which means big walls. It is a house that has been abandoned 100 years ago in Dalsland, Sweden. Since then, nature is busy to take this house back. First holes in the roof, made plants and trees grow inside the house, ants started eating parts of the facade, then after a storm, a big tree crashed into the house. Now that the roof is gone, the wood is fully exposed, the house is defenseless. In 10-20 years all the walls, floors, doors and window frames will be taken care of by nature, just leaving a pile of stones from the chimney and some rocks for the foundation.

By using biobased materials to build our buildings, nature is able to clean up after us, just as it does with its own materials, taking it back into its own cycle. These old Swedish houses build from local wood, with its biodegradable red paint, we can just leave in the hands of nature. Only the glass from the windows needs to be recycled.

Arknat August 22 is done! 3 more wooden shelters added to the collection, now 18 in total; 9 at Höga Kusten, 9 more in Skåne.
2 weeks with 15 inspirational students, designing, discussing, discovering and building.
Yesterday we finished the Leaf, the Lily’s and the Cone, all 3 spectacular and different. Thanks to all students, leaders, municipalies, and Mick at the lighthouse in Smygehuk.

Next year !

.risberg .torshage and Linus Kalander

3 sites, 16 students; Arknat 2-2022 is on its way!

With .risberg .torshage and all the students. Designs are in their way!

Pilgrimage to one of the homes of wood building: the Stave church in Heddal, Norway. Built over 900 years ago and still going strong. The main structure at the inner shell is still the original wood specially cut and dried to get the best quality known to man at that time from experience of building Viking ships.
Inner shell and outer shell are disconnected to preserve the heart of the building.
The wood shingles on the outside are on the roof since the early 90 and are still in fine shape due to their treatment every 4 years.

NORWEGIAN WOOD!

More wood for De Warren! The glass facade for the big auditorium is being placed. Together with the laminated columns and beams, the CLT walls and the horizontal azobe beams in the facade and a little bit of sunlight, they make a beautiful spectacle.
The reclaimed wood facade is done on one side, progress is being made during the summer holidays!

Recycled wood on the facade! The facade cladding for is mounted. This recycled Azobé planks where harvested from the hull of old ships, cut to right dimensions and put on the facade for a new life. Window frames made from accoya wood.

Another under the belt. At 3 beautiful locations in Swedens Skåne, 15 students designed and built 3 new wind shelters in 2 weeks.
After a high pressure cooking design process with sketching, presenting, discussing, calculating and selecting, lectures from Håkan Risberg , Emina Kovacic and myself, students moved to the prefab phase preparing their shelters and them moved to the site for assambly.

Great result from all students; Agáta Kočířová (Agata Kocirova) , Christian Loutfi , Lotta Edlund , Silja Suitiala, Alexander Morell, Emma Donahue, Haya Alshahel , Katarzyna Waśniowska , David A. , Elisa Cognet , Hanna Clausen, Oscar Häggström, David Johnson and Emma Eiring .

And great thank you to John Grundström and Martin Björklund for helping to organize this great event. Happy to be back in August for yet another one this year.

Wooden buildings in Amsterdam on their way! Five of them are ours. Let’s build with nature.

For an upcoming project, our client dropped off a box with ingredients as preparation of the first big meeting. Not a program of requirements and a budget, but stories on local craftsmanships, agricultural traditions and 3 potential sites that should be investigated by people with different backgrounds. What an open mind to start a project!

Let’s make agritecture!

has topped out last week. The workers on the building met the future inhabitants during an indoor bbq.
A few more months to go. Zet hem op ToekomstGroep and all others involved.

Main space of taking shape. Scaffolding gone and some clt walls already in position.