buzzsawmonkey 6/8/2020 5:09:33 PM

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Kosh's Shadow 6/8/2020 6:05:21 PM

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lucius septimius 6/8/2020 6:05:31 PM

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lucius septimius 6/8/2020 6:06:58 PM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 1:

I have two wonderful books on German timber houses (Fachwerk is the term).  There is one I wish I could find that had very detailed drawings showing the way that the timbers were fitted to one another.  And it's traditionally done entirely with axes.

buzzsawmonkey 6/8/2020 6:14:14 PM

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In #4 lucius septimius said: And it's traditionally done entirely with axes.

No wonder Germany became the Axes Power...

lucius septimius 6/8/2020 6:14:56 PM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 5: 

Just teed it up, didn't I?

buzzsawmonkey 6/8/2020 6:18:38 PM

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Reply to lucius septimius in 6:

OK, low-hanging fruit, but how could I say no?

Kosh's Shadow 6/8/2020 6:39:28 PM

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In #4 lucius septimius said: There is one I wish I could find that had very detailed drawings showing the way that the timbers were fitted to one another.  And it's traditionally done entirely with axes.

There is a 200 year old Chinese house on display at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem MA. The wooden beams are all intricately carved to fit together without fasteners. There is a section on this site that shows it (you have to move through the sections)

Yin Yu Tang house

buzzsawmonkey 6/8/2020 6:46:18 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 8:

Many Chinese, and Japanese, structures are built with column capitals that are basically very-intricate interlocking "Chinese puzzles."  They are designed that way to absorb and dissipate the shocks from the earthquakes from which both China and Japan suffer. 

Whether Frank Lloyd Wright adapted and used such technology in his construction of his Tokyo hotel, I do not know---but it would not surprise me, as Wright was a student of Japanese architecture.  His hotel was one of the few structures to survive the immense Tokyo earthquake of the 1920s, though it did not survive the Japanese drive for modernization.

Kosh's Shadow 6/8/2020 7:05:00 PM

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In #9 buzzsawmonkey said: Many Chinese, and Japanese, structures are built with column capitals that are basically very-intricate interlocking "Chinese puzzles."

That describes what I saw in the video when I visited the museum a few years ago. Can't find the pictures on the web, though.

Kosh's Shadow 6/8/2020 7:06:25 PM

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In #9 buzzsawmonkey said: Frank Lloyd Wright

Jukebox

Kosh's Shadow 6/8/2020 7:07:17 PM

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In #3 lucius septimius said: If Kosh is around check the Frontier.  Even if he's tall and skinny, he should still see it.

Processed. 

Occasional Reader 6/8/2020 7:29:42 PM

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Kosh's Shadow 6/8/2020 7:45:50 PM

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With all this rioting, I'm glad I live far enough out of Boston that if anything happened here, most people would say "Where the hell is that?"

Many don''t even know the larger towns nearby.

It is the rich towns that are going to be worse than the others. Concord has a big church that has a Black Lives Matter sign for the two years I've been going by.

Kosh's Shadow 6/8/2020 8:44:52 PM

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