Structural clarity that supports beautiful architecture, flexibility, and long-term durability.
Every Soleta home is built twice: once in our production facility and once on your site. Factory production means controlled conditions, no weather delays, and a precision impossible to achieve on a traditional building site.
What this system is
The Soleta triple post-and-beam system is a structural system in which vertical posts and horizontal beams made from glued laminated timber (glulam) carry all the loads of the building. There are no load-bearing internal walls. This gives complete freedom in the floor plan and allows large openings and structural spans that masonry construction cannot achieve easily or elegantly.
What it means for spatial quality
Because the external structure is visible, the interior is not constrained by mandatory structural elements and remains genuinely free. Rooms can be arranged, merged, or divided without structural consequences. Large glazed openings are possible without the visual interruption of columns or lintels. The structural grid becomes a quiet ordering principle — present, but not dominant.
Precision and prefabrication
Every structural element is cut, drilled, and finished in our factory under controlled conditions. Elements are labelled, loaded in assembly order, and transported to site. The structural frame of a Classic Soleta home is typically erected in 3 to 10 days, depending on the size of the house. The complete weatherproof envelope — structure, insulation, cladding, and windows — is achieved within 3 to 10 weeks. This speed is a consequence of preparation, not shortcuts.
Flexibility over time
The post-and-beam system allows additions and reconfigurations that are structurally impossible in masonry. Junction points planned into the original structure allow new modules to be connected without demolishing the existing building. A home built for two can grow to accommodate four without reconstruction, provided the original structure was designed with this in mind. We design this way as a matter of course.
Durability and maintenance
Glulam structural timber can achieve a service life exceeding 80 years when correctly designed, protected from direct moisture exposure and maintained appropriately. The Soleta wall build-up — vapour-permeable membrane, natural insulation, ventilated cladding — is designed to allow moisture to move and escape, preventing condensation damage that shortens the life of airtight synthetic constructions. Cladding is the sacrificial layer, designed to be replaced without touching the structure.
Wall & envelope performance
- Wall U-value
- 0.15 W/m²K
- Insulation
- Natural wood fibre — λ 0.038 W/mK
- Wall thickness
- 35 cm
- Frame material
- Glulam — GL24h class
- Roof U-value
- 0.12 W/m²K
- Windows
- Triple-glazed — Uw 0.8 W/m²K
- Airtightness
- n₅₀ ≤ 0.6 h⁻¹ (Passive House standard)
Every structural element is cut, drilled, and finished in controlled conditions before it reaches your site. The result is a dimensionally exact frame — no site variation, no fabrication mistakes, no waiting on weather.
About the structural system
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What goes into a Soleta wall and why that matters for the people inside.