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Timber Framing

As timber framers we are a group of architects and craftsmen with interest and experience in traditional mortise and tenon timber framing.

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Fort Calhoun, Nebraska: Exterior view Fort Calhoun, Nebraska
The local topography of loess soil created a peninsula of a bluff for this house near Omaha. The land is a classic oak savanna and no trees were lost in situating the house. The volume of this timber frame structure was carved out to create a porch, ballooned up to two stories for a music room, and includes a family-dining room in its heart.

Car Barn: Main level display area Car Barn

Manhattan, Illinois House: Stair Manhattan, Illinois

Wasau, Wisconsin: Living room Wasau, Wisconsin
This Prairie Style timber frame house sits on the shore of an abandoned granite quarry. The Prairie School architects did not use timber framing. But Frank Lloyd Wright liked all things Japanese. This timber frame looks to Japan for inspiration. There are three “bent” timbers, one on each side of the great room, as well as one over the master bed. The main floor of the house is a radiant slate tile floor that, at certain times, is the same color as the lake.

Living room Suttons Bay, Michigan
This house is a summer nest for artistic snowbirds. The couple are cousins and grew up in the neighborhood. They harvested trees from their own property to build this timber house. Seven species of timbers are used through the house to in order to maximize their potential. The spiral growing iron wood post became the central post of the spiral stairs.

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Sam Marts Architects & Planners Ltd.January 9, 2021 at 3:11am

This large window-wall was designed by Sam Marts Architects & Planners for the renovation of a storefront (former bakery) into a home. This window is located on axis with the dining table, providing a view into a fully realized, “naturalistic” stream-bed through a new garden.

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Sam Marts Architects & Planners Ltd.December 22, 2020 at 12:34am

Sam Marts Architects & Planners designed, and White Oak Timber Frame constructed, this partial timber frame to reinforce a one hundred year old lakeside house in Michigan. The upper portion of the timber frame will accommodate wider bedrooms as well as supporting a taller roof….

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Sam Marts Architects & Planners Ltd.December 11, 2020 at 3:12am

A few years ago, Sam Marts Architects & Planners participated in a design Charrette to imagine a new “village” on the east side of Grand Rapids, Michigan, along the Grand River.
Downtown, from a retail point of view, is really only a corner store…

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Sam Marts Architects & Planners Ltd.December 4, 2020 at 3:01pm

This is an example of extraordinary timber joinery. The timbers are fitted in a seemingly impossible decorative fashion. Used here to frame a “log cabin”, but more likely a “log palace”.

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Sam Marts Architects & Planners Ltd.November 25, 2020 at 3:02am

A few years ago, Sam Marts Architects & Planners participated in a design Charrette to imagine a new “village” on the east side of Grand Rapids, Michigan, along the Grand River.
A pair of larger houses were imagined to frame the main entry drive,…

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Sam Marts Architects & Planners Ltd.November 22, 2020 at 10:49pm

A few years ago, Sam Marts Architects & Planners participated in a design Charrette to imagine a new “village” on the east side of Grand Rapids, Michigan, along the Grand River. The neighborhood was imagined to be similar to a traditional, mid-western, small town with…

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Sam Marts Architects & Planners, Ltd.
2018 W. Concord Pl.
Chicago, Illinois 60647
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