Dundee Walls

Digitally designed, handmade interior woodwork

  • Type Residential Interiors,
  • Location Omaha, Nebraska
  • Status Built
  • Date 2024
  • Collaborators

    Fabricator: d.KISER design.construct, inc.

Built-in wood paneled walls with cleverly hidden cabinets animate and add personality to a generically modern townhouse owned by two graphic designers. The project consists of two units: a wall nestling a bench facing the main first floor entrance and walls framing the second floor living room area that surrounds an existing gas fireplace and conceals a flat screen television behind a folding panel.

Continuing our interest in the interrelationship between digital design and fabrication and the qualities of bespoke handicraft, we worked with parametric models to develop a solid wood paneling system that appears to be in constant motion. Flat shiplap boards give way to shaped timbers that appear to gradually rotate towards corners or other inflection points on the surface. The White Oak boards are finished to match the existing wood floor upstairs, allowing the new millwork to appear as an outgrowth of the house.

Projects such as this are possible because of Actual Architecture Co.’s close collaboration with a network of fabricators and artisans.

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The Fireplace Wall

The main features of the Fireplace Wall are the fireplace (and existing gas unit with a new hot-rolled steel surround), and the folding panels that conceal a flat screen TV. The Wall also includes cove lighting to illuminate the inside corner, 2 hidden cabinets open at the light cove, and a removable wood panel conceals a switch plate in the wall.

In this drawing white boards are custom-milled standard shiplap profiles while the red highlights show a gradient of shaped boards that appear to rotate out of the flat plane of the wall.

The Entry Wall

The Entry Wall conceals a coat closet and has a removable panel that allows artwork to be installed flush with the adjacent wood wall. Here the white boards are custom-milled standard shiplap profiles while the red highlights show a gradient of shaped boards that appear to rotate out of the flat plane of the wall.

Custom White Oak Profiles

Digital design for handmade fabrication

The apparent rotation of the boards is accomplished with 18 profiles used in different combinations for varying effect. To control costs the custom profiles are used sparingly with most of the wall clad in the “A” profile, a standard milled shiplap.

Project Awards

2025 Residential Design Architecture Awards, Citation

Photography By Colin Conces

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