TimberDESIGN Enews January 2010

FSC loses Green Star monopoly

When the clock signaled the beginning of 2010, the Australian Green Building Council’s discriminatory specification of FSC as the only Green Star-earning timber certification scheme ended.

The back down didn’t come without a fight – including intervention by federal forestry minister Tony Burke and both the Queensland and Victoria state governments threatening to sideline the scheme on public buildings.

Working around a tangled web

The challenge for Auckland architect Pete Bossley could hardly have been tougher: a 3-bedroom house on a small and near-impossible site at Thorne Bay on Auckland’s North Shore, with intertwined limbs of a pohutukawa (the New Zealand Christmas tree) covering half the available building zone.

Oh yes, there was also the little matter of the 1:3 gradient on a very tight access lane; not to mention the volcanic rock base.

A notable addition

Timber is the primary material in this contemporary extension to an elegant Angelsea timber home at the eastern end of Australia’s Great Ocean Road. It certainly caught our eye.

Designed by Andrew Maynard Architects, radiata pine construction and spotted gum cladding define give the extensions their own language, distinct from the old part of this coastal holiday house.

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