Sioo wood protection specified by award-winning architect

Regeneration Tue, Mar 22, 2016 5:37 PM

Sioo wood protection specified by award-winning architect

Sioo are leaders in wood protection using silicon technology to provide a highly effective proven process for protecting wood of all types, giving long life and a beautiful natural surface completely friendly to people and the environment.

Karlsson Wachenfeldt Architects are an innovative architectural practice based in Gothenburg, Sweden. Their private and public sector clients have high demands on architectural design, aesthetics and functionality which has led to a wide business scope including housing, public buildings, urban and landscape planning, design and large municipal assignments of varying nature.

The practice sets out to bring an extra dimension to their work stimulating the senses of users, builders and clients.

Led by senior partner Johan von Wachenfeldt, the practice have an extensive portfolio of iconic projects across Sweden and won the Boras Urban Architecture Award in 2012 for 18 passive houses located in a dramatic forest.

It was in looking for the extra dimension to finish and protect the exterior of his new timber spruce clad home, with extensive decking in a lakeside island setting, that led Johan to specify Sioo’s wood protection products.  

“I knew exactly what I wanted, a house that over time becomes silver grey, very silver grey," he said. "I looked and looked and could not find any treatment that retained the natural wood appearance. I could not find any other option than to let the natural wood stand outside for a very long time.
"So it would take a great many years before I got the look I wanted. Then I heard of Sioo which speeds up this natural process.”

Taken over the longer term Johan says “that Sioo gives very good economic benefits and protection”. Johan was “amazed” at how quickly Sioo treatment can be applied “you can be finished in a day and then you need not do anything for several years”.

For his own home and as an architect working in the public space on important municipal buildings, Johan is acutely conscious of the importance of specifying products that are completely safe and friendly to the user and the environment.
 
“This is very important when we prescribe it professionally on various projects such as in municipalities and others," he added. "We have confidence in Sioo.”

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