Kalesnikoff Prefabrication and Modular Facility

Inside this new 82,000 square foot manufacturing facility, Kalesnikoff will construct mass timber modular units to be shipped throughout North America. These mass timber ‘mods’ will form the building-blocks for student and workforce housing, prefabricated housing, schools and other mass timber projects in Canada and the US. By merging two rapidly expanding industries (the ‘mass timber’ and ‘modular’ industries) under a single roof, this new building expands Kalesnikoff’s product offerings and embodies the company’s spirit of innovation.

The new facility is conceived as a mass timber ‘shell’ that contains the manufacturing operations while proudly exposing all structural timber (CLT walls, Glulam columns and beams, GLT roof,) to the interior of the building. With large clerestory windows, the result is a robust structure filled with daylight and saturated by the beauty of wood.

A steel and timber canopy skirts the building on all four sides. The canopy provides shelter for materials and is the framework for a series of timber slat walls. These walls, both structural and functional, screen the views of manufacturing materials from a neighbouring highway and airport lands. The canopy also forms the roof to three ‘outbuildings’ that contain the facility’s reception, design offices, staff rooms, lunch rooms, a biomass heating facility, an electrical room, and other ancillary uses.

The building is wrapped in corrugated metal (above the canopy) and open slat timber cladding (below the canopy). The exposed mass timber interiors, and subtle detailing in the exterior cladding, draw attention to the raw material that is at the core of the Kalesnikoff organization - wood.