Walter Segal (1907 – 1985) was an architect who developed a system of self-build housing.
The Segal method is based on traditional timber frame methods modified to use standard materials available today. It eliminates the need for wet trades such as bricklaying and plastering resulting in a light-weight methods which can be built with minimal experience and are ecologically sound. The roofs tend to be flat with many layers of roofing felt, which ...
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Walter Segal (1907 – 1985) was an architect who developed a system of self-build housing.
The Segal method is based on traditional timber frame methods modified to use standard materials available today. It eliminates the need for wet trades such as bricklaying and plastering resulting in a light-weight methods which can be built with minimal experience and are ecologically sound. The roofs tend to be flat with many layers of roofing felt, which allows the creation of grass covered roofs. Foundations are minimal, often just paving slabs, the strength coming from the geometry of their construction. Segal houses have been compared to traditional Japanese houses.
Walter Segal was brought up in Switzerland close to an alternative community called Monte Verità.(McKean) His first commission was a small wooden holiday cabin built in 1932 and commissioned by a rich patron, Bernhard Mayer. The same patron enabled him to study architecture among the pioneers of the Modern Movement in Delft,...
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