We cut the hardwood tropical hardwood railway sleepers into approx 20-25mm planks, using the weathered faces as cladding. It's rainscreen cladding, so fixed to timber battens and support on metal helping-hand system.
The inside of the relay railway sleepers (i.e. with the weathered faces cut off) was used as posts either side of the windows. The timber above the windows is the inside of the relay railway sleepers cut into planks.
Photos taken by 'Reed Watts Architects'.
Matt
Reed Watts Architects
21C Clerkenwell Road, London, EC1M 5RD
RAILWAY SLEEPERS USED:
Used Jarrah & tropical hardwood railway sleepers
2.6m x 250mm x 125mm