Located on a high bluff overlooking Falcon Lake, eastern Manitoba’s favourite cottage lake.
The design process was led by the client who worked collaboratively with Cornerstone’s design team to integrate the mass timber structure.
Large, cantilevered decks and roof extensions were easily achieved with mass timber.
Site access was challenging with assembly work restricted to the building’s footprint. The use of prefabricated CLT and glulam components made this both possible and efficient.
The Reynaers window wall system integrated perfectly thanks to the high accuracy of mass timber fabrication.
This new clubhouse proves that a beautiful recovery can follow calamity. A fire destroyed Minnewasta’s old timber frame clubhouse in November 2021 and within a few months a modern mass timber clubhouse design was underway.
The clubhouse’s escarpment edge location is spectacular, providing a 180-degree vista over the course and adjacent valley.
Floor-to-ceiling glass in the 160-seat dining area combine with extensive patios and walkways to connect guests with the site’s impressive natural setting.
The new timber structure fabricated and installed by Cornerstone Timberframes is a perfect aesthetic fit for the clubhouse and underlines the relaxing, stress-free atmosphere demanded by the course’s golf pro.
Despite the extensive glazing, the building design supports the client’s sustainable priorities, with a goal of reducing energy use by 58% compared to the previous clubhouse. The mass timber structure sequesters 44.8 metric tonnes of CO2.
This 35’ high atrium forms the main entrance and focal point of a new civic space that will host concerts, tradeshows, community events, and will feature the region’s largest ice sports venue.
The large roof beams of the atrium are 12” wide and 54” deep and span up to 59’, weighing as much as 8,300 lbs each.
Cornerstone maintained close coordination with the structural steel supplier to ensure that wood to steel connections integrated smoothly, creating a visually seamless result.
78 tonnes of CO2-eq are stored in the atrium timbers.
People living in indigenous communities deserve safe, attractive, high-quality housing. The client, a First Nation in NW Ontario wanted their new homes to prioritize natural materials, to inspire those who live in them and to be energy efficient.
A-Frames are not just a relic of the 1960’s – they are amongst the oldest housing forms and were built by societies around the globe.
Cornerstone produces these efficient designs as a “kit of parts” in four sizes.
Their soaring living areas and abundance of light make them joyful places for people to inhabit. This is especially critical for residential school survivors and their families, where space design and material choices can influence wellbeing.
Nordic glulam timbers are the structural bones of the A-frame. 2×6 tongue and groove pine acts as both the ceiling finish and the structural roof deck. This provides the ideal nail base for continuous, high-performance insulation.
Churchill Wild operates three luxury wilderness ecolodges for guests from around the world who come to see polar bears and beluga whales along the Hudson Bay coast.
Blueberry Inn is their new guest arrival and departure point in Churchill, Manitoba and provides accommodation for up to 30 guests.
The Inn’s large common room features double chord trusses, that aesthetically tie-in to the timbered spaces that guests will experience in each of the wilderness lodges.
Pool houses are summer-time multipliers and this one has the client enjoying the outdoors at every opportunity!
With cool shade for sizzling summer days, a sound system, lights, and a TV that swivels into place for game day parties, this space is well-loved by the clients and their friends.
The hip roof design maintains a low profile, in keeping with the neighbourhood, while giving those under the roof a lot of timber beauty to enjoy.
The large end overhangs are eye-catching and extend 64”, supported by 6×10 braces.
A powered fabric screen can be lowered to shelter the space from wind and late afternoon sunshine that can get in a quarterback’s eyes 🙂
At 18’ x 32’ this pool house is a generous space for family gatherings and evening get-togethers with friends.
The pickled white stain on timbers and boards keeps an informal, cottage vibe, while a large hoop chandelier in dark bronze draws your eye to the 20’ high vault above.
In an area known for its share of mosquitoes, powered roller screens make this a refuge when the sun sets.
On cool evenings a wood fuel fireplace located on the back wall removes the chill and is a focal point for conversation and reflection.
In an effort of provide an energizing and comfortable space for the employees of the utility and maintenance team in Portage La Prairie, this CLT and Glulam space was added to a shop facility.
Exposed wood walls, columns and beams will be visible in the offices, chance rooms, lunch room and common areas.
The light-coloured black spruce is cheerful and calming, helps to moderate indoor humidity levels, and provides uninterrupted attachment points for shelves, partition walls and fixtures.
Black duplex coated steel connections and ventilation is exposed throughout providing a nice visual counter point to the wood.
Perimeter Aviation began operations in 1960 has grown. Now with 850 employees it provides passenger, air ambulance, and cargo service to 33 communities in Manitoba and Northern Ontario. Only two of the communities served have year-round road access.
The addition of terminal space is critical to the airline’s goal of providing more flights and elevating the customer experience on the ground and in the air.
Nordic glulam columns and beams form the bones of the terminal with 5-ply CLT’s used for the roof diaphragm. A total of 265 cubic meters of sustainably harvested and FSC certified wood will be used, storing away 256,520 kg of CO2.
The interior design calls for the wood to be fully exposed.
Thanks to the stress-reducing properties of natural materials like wood, passengers who may feel nervous about flying can thank mass timber for providing some relief.
This lake home has five bedrooms, and 3-1/2 baths.
The soaring living room vault rises 24’ above the main floor. An adjoining dining and kitchen area with flat timber ceilings, have clear sight lines into this space and to the lake visible through large lakeside windows.
A vaulted family den is situated above the two-car garage and an upper floor balcony hall provides an excellent overview of the great room with views to the lake.
Five king post trusses span the 20’ wide great room and are supported on a large parallel chord timber truss that runs from the balcony to the lakeside wall.
The cottage exterior is rich with stone and wood details, featuring several gable trusses, window wall timbers, and Nordic styled outlook beams.
An impressive double posted entry and a two-season lakeside sunroom, round out the high-end architectural look of this lake country get-away.
