A new wooden house in Goa by Architecture Discipline lays a claim to being India’s first mass timber home, incorporating a structure formed from glued laminated portal frames and charred wooden ...
"The decision to use mass-timber stemmed from a desire to push the boundaries of sustainable construction in India," Architecture Discipline principal architect Akshat Bhatt told Dezeen. The house ...
But that’s not unusual: in Australia, the Housing Industry Association says about 80 per cent of detached homes here use timber frames, too. Timber is particularly popular in earthquake-plagued ...