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Loki Baby Pt 8

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Wk 22 - The beauty of the moment may have faded, but the joy was still there.

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Work since that suit appointment had kept your freedom at bay. Breakfasts were kept as shared meals with Loki treasuring hearing about your plans while he had made good on your offer of lending him your car to pick up a few things he had forgotten to stock up on in your shared trip to the shops. Stolen moments of freedom came behind the wheel of the sports car he was allowed to borrow and even with sights of Natasha and other agents on his route still keeping the Prince under surveillance, though now at a milder distance. Monitored freedom but a freedom none the less with clear links to the source of said freedom just a call away if they dared to try and rope him back to the tower again.

The upcoming event on top of the sparse times with you had his nerves mounting. A stolen slip into your nightly reading from a feigned borrowing of a book at the end of his short stack he had bought however had calmed him at least with another joint drift off to sleep at opposite ends of the same couch.

The gentle sunset waking the Prince, who in his sleep had shifted to his side extending a hand to drape over the ankle of the woman on the couch beside him felt his eyes opening when his thumb pressed a bit tighter onto a vein in your ankle clearly revealing quite an odd heartbeat. Though just waking and still swimming his way out of his sleepy daze body had a different idea of what to do past inspecting it further. In a shift he sat up and turned to drape behind you properly lulling your body to melt against his under his arm laying across your middle. Sleep had been hard to come by and for now at least the goal was another night with you in his arms.

A leg had slid between his with a knee pulling his higher holding his hips flush against yours, arms tangled under the blanket and in the burrowing of his head into the back of yours a smoothing of fingers eased under the sleeve on his green shirt. That was what brought you out of sleep, curious raised ridges under finger strokes far from readable. In a deep inhale cracking an eye open to see what it was the swirling ridges around the wrist branched up in solid lines with diagonal dashes and dots in between on the inner side of the arm. Again in his sleep the Prince’s arm tightened around your middle and closing your eyes the sleeve was tugged down and over it a grip on his arm was returned calming the slumbering belief you were trying to break out of his hold.

It was clear he was not Asgardian, he was not like Thor, the red eyes were evident enough and now with such markings over his arms he clearly kept hidden from you in his earlier days of having his dress shirts rolled up. Nestling back into his hold it was decided to wait, allow him to bring up his hidden traits, unless you couldn’t help yourself of course. They reached up his inner arm, it was a hope they were like fingerprints, that he was born with them and not having been self inflicted, you could never handle that, him being in such pain to have etched such a vast set of markings into his skin. Warmly you were cuddled back to sleep and joined the Prince in grumbling at the alarm sounding from the panel on the wall to wake up hours later.

“I’m up,” The chiming dropped to soft trickling of notes had you grumbling again and dipping your hand lower to grab Loki’s leg making his eye crack open, “Your leg’s longer.” In the tap of his foot to the floor the alarm silenced making him chuckle and settle his head behind yours on the pillow.

“Intriguing addition to getting up out of bed. Easily bested though.”

“That, was merely the snooze, we have seven minutes or the couch gets tilted up.”

“That intent on remaining in bed?”

“I do love to lounge.”

“Do you need to go somewhere?”

“No, manicure appointment, did you want in?”

“Hmm,”

“If you like you can watch mine get done and decide then.”

“Would I be able to choose a color, or clear coat only?”

After a giggle you said, “They’re your fingers, Prince Loki.”

“I might try gold.”

“Ooh, with sparkles?”

“Perhaps, though Pepper once had this forest green that looked interesting.”

“You could always alternate, or have diagonal designs in alternating colors.”

Again the chiming picked up and huffing to yourself you found your feet and said, “I’m up.”

After tugging up your sleeves you led Loki down to the lowest floor with tea in hand where you chose black nail polish topped with silver glittery specks across them randomly resembling stars while Loki grinned seeing his forest green shimmering nails with golden glittering arches around the edges and bed of his nails. Pedicures were set to match the base colors and in paying you led the way up to breakfast before you would split up to get ready.

Though a grin from you held him in place and at the boxes you accepted from the floating otters they had fetched from your closet that had arrived the night prior a curious smirk eased across Loki’s lips. “Thought you might need a couple finishing touches.”

Wetting his lips he opened the top box, the smaller of the two and his lips parted seeing his symbol in the Norse faith of two interlocked snaked above his name in Norse Runes etched into the golden cufflinks. “I know the stories recorded and what actually happened for you and your family aren’t exactly cohesive, though I thought you might like them. Even if they aren’t-,”

“They are incredible.” His eyes locked onto yours, “Even though I do not have a symbol, per se, on Asgard, I do admire this one, and the runes are correct. I will be honored to wear them.” Looking down he said, “I cannot imagine what the other surprise might be.”

With a smirk you said, “Not hard to guess, though the details, might be a bit harder to guess.”

Inside the second box his lips parted again seeing the black ring coated face of the watch with white glowing speckles he shifted the outer ring around the face revealing different settings. One to follow the moon cycle exposed by the moon in the center and various constellations and planets with a special marker on the ring he could hit showing the galaxy around Asgard. When his eyes locked on yours you said, “I thought you might like it, not just for telling time and the date. To help you find your way, or just remember our little corner of the world when you are on Asgard again. Water proof, shatterproof and solar recharged battery included, has a compass and all that, and,” in a reach into his view you pointed to an extra dial he could pull out and you said, “If you needed to get in touch. A communicator.”

Smirking at you he asked, “How powerful a communicator?”

Smirking back playfully you quipped, “You might be surprised.”

“Thank you, truly. You must have put quite a great deal of effort into this. I will treasure it always.”

Nipping at your lip you nodded then said, “Well, I should let you get ready. Tails take a while.” In a chuckle he nodded and thanked you again turning for his own apartment still in awe at the watch he had eased onto his wrist smiling at the etching across the back, ‘Always believe that something wonderful is about to happen.’

It was simple, and hopeful, and for a moment everything he needed to have strapped to his wrist to help keep him going on his worst days. A glimpse of home, a glimpse of you, a bridge of sorts between the two. Layer by layer he readied after basic primping and finalized the look with the securing of his cufflinks in the hall only to turn with lips parting at your long sleeved silver shimmering gown practically poured over you with only a cutout over your back revealing any of your skin. Your silver clip secured bun held in place for a sleek look already making him feel under dressed out of his armor and cape. A gown like that you were ready to be presented to a King, not being taken to some Midguardian dinner, no matter how fancy the occasion was slated to be.

A loop of your arm in his extended elbow and his heart began to flutter imagining the faces of the men seeing you arrive on his arm. Though that came with a landslide of doubts on being the one on your arm. The killer, the invader, mass murdering psychopath. How could he ever be deserving of an innocent’s attentions or company? How could he ever make anyone understand the reasons behind it when this planet was so far behind his own? How could he ever be enough for all your kindness?

Small talk led to dinner and more talking while the orchestra readied. A single glance of a man tapping your elbow at the bar in his step away to explain a painting fuller to a woman who asked if he knew about the artist and his heart dropped. His answer was given and the woman gone leaving him turning for the terrace. Straight to the stone half wall he went unbuttoning his outer jacket in a sharp exhale trying to reign in his tears threatening to fill his eyes imagining you spending the night in another’s arms to dance and at the worst to sleep. There was no bond past monetary partnership and in fair exchange he had fulfilled his duty, escorting you here tonight, just as you had fulfilled yours, housing and pampering him to comfort.

“I hate realtors.” The sound of your voice tore his eyes open and his mind from the edge seeing a glass of champagne set in front of him, “Every party nonstop offers on my building.”

“Realtors?” The frailty of his tone and bare glace at you made you dip under his arm and have his wide eyed teary gaze looking you over.

Moving closer in a simple ease of your hands around his sides his chest rose in a deep inhale as you hummed out, “I believe you owe me a dance, Prince Loki.” The reach for his folded back vest had his eyes shut and body inching closer in a sort of timid hug in the ease of his arm around your back followed by the other. In his next inhale showing he was readying to release you, you hummed near his ear, “I would not abandon you. I arrived with you and perhaps we should take a spin or two around the floor then let the land hungry men watch us go back to our apartment for some dessert?”

“Those tarts were disgraceful,” making you giggle in his hands slowly sliding off your back allowing you to secure his vest for him and watch his downing the glass as you did the same with yours followed by an offer of his hand paired with a confident grin mustered up by your assurance and embrace. A gentle press of his lips to your knuckles and back into the room he led you in a camera drawing set of dances, close and intimate with whispered conversation appearing far from the childish jokes and gossip it was, followed by an early departure flooding stories out across social media of the supposed serious relationship.

‘Lovers caught in an embrace.’ The title read and the picture behind it showed what seemed to be your lips on Loki’s cheek and him smirking in the drawing of his arms around your lower back. Below the picture Loki scrolled down and read the brief synopsis of your smirk and loving stare filled dinner followed by a subtle slip from the Prince out of the ballroom allowing you both the private moment. A kiss to your knuckles and several comments on the intimate holds in dancing, subtle traces of his fingers lower on your back and down your arms and a final stolen imagined kiss to your cheek, really a whispered secret, but not from that angle.

Closing the app on his phone in your putting away your phone after it’s alerting you to your father’s ship being within a week’s distance away. A grin slipped onto his face and keeping the news to himself to keep the night from being spoiled he kept his mind focused on the hour prior with you in his arms imagining you were dancing in his home and not here for the mortal’s supposed need for gossip.

Talk of what treats was shared and upon return a simple stripping to your pajamas was had and around the ice cream set on your kitchen island you chose your dessert to go with your brownies and cookies and went to lounge through the movie Loki had picked.

Washed and comfortable away from the public eye back to your continued bliss of the protected apartment building and couch where once again he could hold you possibly through the night. It was impossible to stop now, imaginings Royal occasions with you on his arm, a chance to return the favor and flaunt you proudly in return once he found his way home.

A momentary flash of awkwardness slid across your face making his head tilt in a glance at his exposed arm in cleaning up your dishes and he asked, “Is something troubling you, Miss Pear?” Again refusing to cross that line of intimacy out loud hoping partially you might insist again on his using the informal title for you.

“When we were sleeping last night, I felt some marks on your arm.” His lips parted and you said, “I know you’re not human and according to Thor not Asgardian, but I have to ask,” Inhaling deeply he gave a slight nod only to have his brows furrow in shock at your asking, “You didn’t carve those in your arms yourself, did you?”

All at once it washed over him in the concern in your eyes how worried they had made you for his well being and he flatly replied in his still shaken tone, “No.” Hastily he wet his lips and extended his arms lowering your gaze at the rising of his Jotun ridges, “I am a Jotun, I have them on my back, face and neck as well. Though I prefer to keep them to myself.” A timid lift of your fingers to stroke one of the swirls had him saying, “They are unique, for each Jotun.”

“Like snowflakes?” You asked catching his gaze and his nod.

“I did not mean to concern you, merely they rise again in my sleep occasionally.”

“I’m just glad you wouldn’t hurt yourself.”

In a tilt of his head he hid the marks again saying, “Not counting plans for myself and Thor to harm one another or my playing dead to distract others, no, I try to avoid physical harm as others would.”

“Good.” A glance towards the living room in a wonder as to what film you would choose to end up taking you from the minor tasks on your to do list possibly ending in another morning of waking up in the grip of the snuggle happy Prince.

Tonight however Thor would call and ask to finish their marathon and the blonde would be the one he would wake beside on the connected lounging couches of their private theater. The night however would continue to play on in his dreams while you tinkered in the bunker far below sharing with your precious Tardis that parts were soon in the way knowing your father would never allow you to be stranded for very long anywhere or any time. Tonight was flawed but perfect all the same. The beauty of the moment had faded but the joy was still there.

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Komische Oper Berlin Building: REX

Komische Oper Berlin Building Project, German Architecture News, Images

Komische Oper Berlin Design

28 Oct 2020

Komische Oper Berlin

Architect: REX

Location: Berlin, Germany

Komische Oper Berlin Expansion

South Facade Render: image : Luxigon

Rehearsal Stage Render: image : Luxigon

North Facade Render – one of two rehearsal stages, louvers open: image : Luxigon

Box office and restaurant on Unter den Linden

This proposed design for the Komische Oper Expansion aspires to create a respectful and individual partner that highlights the Komische Oper building and defines a new urban node befitting the significance of the institution. Its contextual massing, outward-facing public functions, and generous urban plaza integrate the building in the neighborhood’s fabric. Its understated yet dynamic façade allows the Expansion’s creative energy to spill out into the public realm or be fully cloistered when desired.

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A compact Nucleus: efficient rehearsal node and dynamic performance venue

The Komische Oper Expansion condenses its essential functions into a dynamic ‘Nucleus:’ the two rehearsal stages, the orchestra rehearsal, and the suite of practice rooms straddle a central ‘Circulation Hub’ containing passenger and scene elevators, stairs, and lounges for the fluid movement of performers, scenery, instruments, and equipment. This compact organization renders the Nucleus a highly efficient rehearsal node and—due to the variable raked floor machinery in the rehearsal stages—a lively public performance venue, able to also host private functions for increased economic productivity.

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Direct connectivity with the Komische Oper

The Nucleus’ Circulation Hub connects performers and technicians—as well as rehearsal and other support spaces— directly to the existing Komische Oper’s main stage and orchestra pit. The larger rehearsal stage is adjacent to the side stage entrance, allowing set configurations to be tested and transported without disrupting other functions. The new orchestra rehearsal and instrument storage are aligned with the orchestra pit, ensuring timely turn-over from preshow uses.

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Preserved site requirements and Komische Oper primacy

In addition to maximizing connectivity with the existing Komische Oper, the Nucleus’ compactness preserves the required loading and egress alleys while maintaining the critical 20-meter-wide footprint of the rehearsal stages. Performer and staff access to the Komische Oper Expansion is off Glinkastraße to retain primacy of the Komische Oper’s distinct entrance on Behrenstraße, both as the public access point for audiences and as a cultural landmark in Mitte. The existing performer entrance to Komische Oper in the rear courtyard is improved with a new security vestibule adjacent to—and with security oversight of—the Expansions’ scene dock.

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Urban activators inside and out, and deferential massing

The Nucleus’ compactness also enables urban activators to cap its ends. On Behrenstraße, the three stacked floors of the café provide views both out to the city and into the larger rehearsal stage. A new public plaza—the ‘Urban Room’—in front of the café supports outdoor dining and can serve as an exterior venue for performances, exhibitions, markets, fashion shows, or cinema.

On Unter den Linden, the new box office, shop, and restaurant increase the Komische Oper’s visibility on this popular thoroughfare. Like the café, the restaurant—with its own, dedicated entrance for independent operation— allows guests to watch the rehearsal activities in the smaller rehearsal stage. As these public uses will draw in foot traffic, they also create new patron engagement with Komische Oper’s programming and support non-performance revenue streams.

When the rehearsal stages serve as public performance spaces, patrons access these venues from the entrances of the café and restaurant such that clear demarcation between public and private functions is maintained; portions of the café and restaurant become the venues’ lobby and bar spaces.

The Expansion lines up strategically with the back of Komische Oper’s entry block to preserve the important sightlines to its historic entrance, and maintains the loading alley as a passageway under the extension.

Integrated yet isolated office and mechanical functions

The offices, instrument storage, and mechanical spaces are organized in long bars above and below the Nucleus and the new urban amenities, stretching to the site’s full 110 m. The office floors feature double-story courtyards that introduce daylight and fresh air into the work spaces. They can be used year-round thanks to deployable EFTE pillows.

The office floors create a 20-meter-long cantilever on Behrenstraße that defines the Urban Room. At almost 15 m high, the cantilever frames views to the Komische Oper from the corner of Glinkastraße and Behrenstraße, further enhancing the respectful symbiosis between the two buildings. A similar 10-meter-long cantilever (creating the glass-enclosed box office below) on Unter den Linden extends the Opera Support Building’s covered public walkway.

Visual, acoustic, and environmental performance

The Expansion’s double-skin façade with its integrated stone louvers (matching the white Cottaer Sandstone to be reinstalled on the existing Komische Oper) is one of the building’s most notable features, visually and sustainably. The 3 m to 4.2 m tall arced louvers rotate 180 degrees to track the sun, but also give performers the options to 1) expose their work—as desired—to passers-by, 2) benefit from rehearsing in full daylight, with minimized brightness and glare, or 3) create full blackout environments. The façade’s ever-changing nature gives the building its subtle yet dynamic identity.

Each facade’s two glazing layers, the naturally-ventilated cavity between them, and their enclosed, stone sun/glare-control louvers, combine to significantly reduce the building’s mechanical and electrical loads. The double-skin/air cavity mitigates the fluctuations of external temperatures and creates a chimney stack effect which naturally ventilates the cavity. When the stone louvers are rotated perpendicular to the sun, daylight reaches deep into the building, reducing electrical loads and warming up the structure’s floors and walls for passive heating.

The façade’s external glazing layer is comprised of heat-curved, laminated, uncoated low-iron glass panels that are prebonded to extruded aluminum interlocking cassettes, affixed to top-hung steel “T” profiles providing a minimal appearance. The internal glazing layer is composed of double-glazed, heat-curved, low-iron safety glass units with a triple-silver low-E coating on surface 3; it is installed similarly to the external laminated panel with a pre-glazed aluminum assembly and steel “T” profile. The aggregate window-wall U-value is 0.70 W/m2K with a high SHGC of 0.20 for solar heat gains in winter.

The glass façade system plays a significant role in the Expansion’s acoustic performance: • the double façade isolates the rehearsal stages, orchestra rehearsal, practice rooms, public programs, and offices from street noise; • the stone louvers allow the rooms to reveal themselves and the activity within them without impacting their acoustic integrity; • the mass and integral damping of the 20 mm glass inner lite in the insulating glass system contribute acoustic warmth and mitigate brightness often associated with glass when it is used as an acoustic finish; • and the curved glass provides acoustic diffusion and—working together with the technical catwalks in the rehearsal stages—acoustic support for the performers.

Spanning each of the office’s five courtyards is an operable frame mounted with ETFE pillows. The frame is attached to tracks that allow the operable roof to slide open making the courtyards a year-round amenity for staff. When closed, the frame is designed as a fully gasketed, thermally broken system and acts as the courtyard’s thermal line. The air-inflated panels improve U-Value thermal performance and, through printed patterns, can reduce the SHGC as required. The entire façade is suspended from the roof to protect it from variable slab movements and minimize horizontal joints along the glazed surface.

At the corner of Behrenstraße and Glinkastraße, the Urban Room under the Expansion’s cantilever adds a dynamic public plaza to the Komische Oper complex and Mitte. This ever-changing public square serves both as an outdoor seating area for the café and as an event space for exhibitions, performances, markets, fashions shows, or cinema. In addition to attracting new patrons, the versatility of this space offers the Komische Oper a different source of revenue through institutional partnerships, further ensuring its social and economic sustainability.

Three closed concrete cores at the center and at both ends of the Expansion compose its primary structural system. Besides functioning as the main vertical support elements, the rigid cores also absorb lateral movement, induced primarily by wind loading. All generic, non-isolated floor slabs are supported by a combination of the cores and concrete columns; except for the conventional concrete slab on the ground floor, they are Holorib to achieve high efficiency and weight reduction.

At the top two floors—the offices—four parallel, double-height trusses span the building’s full length, a continuous beam working with the concrete cores to form the 20-meter-long cantilever hovering above the Urban Room and the 10-meterlong cantilever over the box office.

Floating above the generic slabs and below the top floor trusses, all the rehearsal spaces employ a box-in-box concept, providing optimal sound and vibration isolation amongst the rooms and from the superstructure.

The rehearsal stages and orchestra rehearsal are constructed as independent boxes resting on isolators and attached laterally to the primary superstructure using acoustic wall ties. The larger rehearsal stage and orchestra rehearsal boxes are built using various combinations of conventional and prestressed precast concrete floor/ceiling slabs, precast walls, and steel trusses, while the small rehearsal stage box is composed of a precast concrete slab and plasterboard walls/ceilings. By contrast, the practice room boxes—composed of wood floors and plasterboard walls/ceilings—are resiliently supported on a conventional concrete slab suspended by hangers from the office trusses.

The Expansion adopts several sustainable strategies, including a naturally-ventilated façade, optimized building systems (displacement ventilation; plenum air distribution; high-efficiency, sensible, and latent heat recovery units and lowpressure air ducting; radiant thermal systems; geothermal ground source system), photovoltaic modules, green roof, and open space.

Natural ventilation at the office levels is provided via the passively tempered courtyards, which are thermally closed in winter with triple layer ETFE pillows that can be opened in the intermediate and summer seasons. This creates semi-open planted buffer spaces, ranging from a minimum annual temperature of 12°C in winter to shaded ambient temperatures in summer for full use as breakout and recreational spaces. The courtyard facades are single glazed for optimal daylight quality and natural ventilation for the offices. A textile shading system below the ETFE pillows helps control daylight, glare, and temperature.

Komische Oper Berlin Expansion – Building Infromation

CLIENT: Federal State of Berlin, Senate Department for Urban Development and Housing PROGRAM: Renovation and expansion of a landmarked opera house, including two rehearsal stages, orchestra rehearsal, suite of smaller practice rooms, box office, shop, café, restaurant, and administrative offices AREA: 38,000 m2 (409,000 sf) COST: Confidential STATUS: Limited competition 2020; finalist 2020 ARCHITECT: REX PERSONNEL: Tim Carey, Wanjiao Chen, Adam Chizmar (PL), Maur Dessauvage, Kelvin Ho, Sebastian Hofmeister (PL), Britt Johnson, Isabelle Moutaud, Joshua Ramus, Elina Spruza Chizmar, Tammy Teng, Vaidotas Vaiciulis (PL), Teng Xing LOCAL ARCHITECT: Brenne Architekten CONSULTANTS: Front, Jan Knippers, KLW, Theater Engineering, Theatre Projects, Threshold, Transsolar, Treibhaus

BKomische Oper Berlin Building design by REX images / information received 281020

Location: Berlin, Germany, western Europe

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Build Systems: Insulated Concrete Formwork (ICF)

If you’re looking for an intuitive, quick structural system with impressive energy performance, then insulated concrete formwork (ICF) could be a great choice for your self build project.

Sometimes referred to as LEGO for adults, ICF is a straightforward building method that can get you to weathertight stage very fast. What’s more, it lends itself to pretty much any style of house design, and quality is built-in thanks to its impressive thermal and acoustic properties.

Here’s what you need to know if you’re considering ICF for your self build home.

What is ICF?

ICF is based on hollow block or sheet components, usually made of expanded polystyrene (EPS), fastened together with metal or plastic connectors.

The panels or blocks feature an interlocking profile, so they can be stacked without bonding materials to provide a formwork system into which concrete is pumped.

Steel reinforcement is inserted into the cavities, to the structural engineer’s design. The formwork is then braced and aligned, ready to be filled with poured concrete.

Walls are generally constructed to first floor level before filling with concrete, letting it dry and going up to next storey or roof.

The ready-mix concrete is delivered on a truck and poured in lifts, with the crew gradually moving around the building. This minimises pressure on the ties and bracing, thus reducing the chance of Grand Designs-style blow-outs.

The concrete must be carefully directed and vibrated to prevent voids forming. Particular attention to detail is needed around structural openings and areas such as gables to ensure a full fill, for maximum strength and airtightness.

Is ICF energy efficient?

Once the pour is complete, the ICF formwork remains in place to provide a robust layer of thermal insulation – one that will last for the lifetime of the building.

The formwork bestows fantastic U-values (a measure of heat loss) ranging from around 0.30 W/m2K right down to around 0.11 W/m2K. So you can enjoy a highly efficient home that easily surpasses Building Regulations standards – meaning lower bills and less energy in use.

ICF structures also offer very good airtightness as standard, as the concrete pour and insulating formwork combine to create a highly sealed house shell. This helps to reduce heat loss even more.

Different thicknesses of ICF block, with varying insulation depths, are available to help you achieve your target thermal performance (including Passivhaus standards).

Another benefit, and a big plus in this age of environmental awareness, is that the system only produces a tiny amount of waste in construction. Any offcuts of polystyrene can be re-used elsewhere, on or off the build, and you can order the ready-mixed concrete to exact volume requirements.

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How long does it take to build with ICF?

ICF is fast to build with and requires less in the way of traditional building skills when compared to brick-and-block and even timber frame projects.

In most cases, the formwork for a four-room ground floor can be erected in just a couple of days. Your contractor would then spend a few days bracing the walls and any structural openings.

The concrete pour for a whole storey can usually be completed in less than a day.

Only a small team of semi skilled (to around NVQ level 2) operatives is needed to put up the basic structure – which will save money on time and labour.

Most ICF firms in the UK run training courses to bring you up to the right level of competency to help construct the house yourself.

And, as the insulation and structure are all completed in a single process, the homeowner inevitably saves time and expense on this, too.

Design and finish 

While it is easy to spot the construction system used on many homes, it is nearly impossible to tell an ICF house from a masonry or timber frame project. This is because the system is ultra flexible design-wise.

The blocks can be used for creating curved walls, arches and irregular angles – you can build in any style, to virtually any dimension.

It’s easy to construct bay windows, large openings for sliding doors and features such as cantilevers, as they can be integrated into the building envelope and internal walls, eliminating the need to specify specialist products.

Case study: Award Winning Energy-Efficient Self Build

The dramatic design of this Build It Award-winning ICF home incorporates local and traditional materials to reflect the previous derelict farm buildings on the site and blend with the rural landscape.

Local architect, Peter Bamber, was commissioned to design a modern, energy efficient family home reflecting the existence of the previous buildings of farm cottage and stone-clad and open barns.

In the dramatic design produced, the three elements are apparent, the cottage and barn being connected by the glazed link which is timber clad, reminiscent of the old open barn.

Combining the unique design of three different elements, along with the client brief for sustainability, was potentially problematic.

The solution, however, was a fabric first approach, specifying solid construction with Wallform ICF for the external walls, and concrete floors.

The polystyrene blocks or sheets give a uniform and smooth surface that is ready to take most forms of internal and external finish.

Externally you can clad ICF with a myriad of materials. Many ICF homeowners opt for some sort of coloured flexible render, as it works really well and can be applied directly onto the polystyrene.

You can also choose more conventional finishes such as brick slip, stone facade or weatherboarding depending on your design.

Strong and easy to waterproof, ICF is very popular for basements on new build homes, too. In fact, in many cases it’s cheaper for basement builds than other solutions.

Read more: Design Guide to Building with ICF

What to bear in mind

Although ICF sounds like simplicity itself, there are a few things to bear in mind if you choose the system.

The pour stage is critical – the ready-mix concrete has to be of the right consistency to flow to all parts of the formwork.

The ICF system must also be braced to exacting measurements, or else walls could distort. The concrete has to be poured in slowly and steadily to avoid any risk of the forms bursting open.

FAQ: Insulated Concrete Formwork

How are window openings formed?

This will depend on the exact system you choose. The Nudura method uses pre-formed EPS closers that slot into place at the top, bottom and sides to contain the pour (with timber bracing) and maintain the thermal envelope. Alternatives include inserting temporary metal frames. Whichever option you choose, the key is to triple-check everything’s as it should be before the pour, as cutting concrete back after the fact isn’t much fun.

What’s the roof made of?

ICF is a walling-only system. Most self builders will go for conventional Fink or attic trusses for the roof. You can switch to options such as SIPs (structural insulated panels) up top if you wish, but double-checking your engineer can deal with both elements first; otherwise you could be adding complication. Alternatively, Net-Zero’s whole house shell package can include the use of its own iFoam beams to create a hybrid, pre-insulated roofing solution.

What about internal walls?

You can use ICF, and it may make sense to for load-bearing internal walls or where you need great sound performance. But the downside is they will be pretty thick – hence to maximise floor space, many people switch to standard blockwork for load-bearing internal structures, and timber studs for partitions.

Obviously mistakes do happen, but an experienced ICF contractor will be able to resolve any problems.

Adapting the house in the future – adding doors and windows, or moving their position – can be fairly difficult, although not impossible using specialist tools.

What does it cost to build with ICF?

As a general guide, an ICF home building project is likely to come in at around 5% more than a typical timber frame home.

As we’ve seen, however, in the right hands insulated concrete formwork can be an extremely quick and efficient system. That can net you significant savings on labour costs.

You can save even more on your build costs if you decide to do some of the work DIY on your ICF project. But remember that, if something goes wrong, it will be up to you to spend the time and money putting it right.

To get an idea of what your home building project might cost, check out Build It’s interactive Build Cost Calculator.

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