Clean Joints: Precise Finishing for Rough Materials

A rustic detail at a material junction. Where a rough-sawn wooden board wall meets a fair-faced concrete wall, a five-millimeter wide recessed shadow gap is left. Both materials terminate precisely at the sides of the gap, with perfectly straight edges. There are no trim strips, no silicone, and no cover strips. The full cross-section of the wooden boards is exposed. The width of all gaps throughout the house is uniform. Avoid: allowing the two materials to meet directly, creating an uneven gap; using metal trim strips and cover strips; filling with silicone; having uneven ends on the wooden boards.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一處材料交界的質樸細部。粗鋸的木板牆與清水混凝土牆相接的地方,留出一道寬五公釐的內凹陰影縫,兩種材料都收在縫的兩側,邊緣切得筆直;沒有收邊條、沒有矽利康、沒有壓條。木板的斷面完整露出。全屋的縫寬統一。避免:讓兩種材料直接貼合出現不平整的縫、使用金屬收邊條與壓條、用矽利康填補、讓木板的端部參差不齊。