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Berryessa Terraced House: Wooden post and beam, load bearing structural frame combined with sprayed concrete exterior walls
1981Timber frame and concrete combination system: the vertical loads are taken by the interior post and beam system system, where columns and beams are simply pinned together by invinsible steel pins. All shear forces are taken by a one and a half inch concrete shell outer wall, which acts as a shell which ties the building together. The exterior concrete shell is applied by sprayed concrete. Sandwiched between the two is a layer of foam insulation. The interior pine-paneled walls are attached to the post-and-beam timber frame.
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Berryessa Terraced House: Wooden post and beam, load bearing structural frame combined with sprayed concrete exterior walls - Design Development Drawings
15/11/1981
Drawing with vertical section details of the living room – kitchen volume of the house, depicting the timber-concrete combination construction system, across walls, ceiling and roof, in which the timber frame is used for vertical forces and the concrete shell ...
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Berryessa Terraced House: Wooden post and beam, load bearing structural frame combined with sprayed concrete exterior walls - Design Development Drawings
15/11/1981
Two drawings with vertical and horizontal section details of the studio volume of the house, depicting the timber-concrete combination construction system, across walls, window seats, ceiling and roof, in which the timber frame is used for vertical forces and the ...
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Berryessa Terraced House: Wooden post and beam, load bearing structural frame combined with sprayed concrete exterior walls - Design Development Drawings
15/11/1981
The framing plan of the two main volumes of the house, and an axonometric of framing connections, designed and built for vertical forces .
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Berryessa Terraced House: Wooden post and beam, load bearing structural frame combined with sprayed concrete exterior walls - Photographs of mock-up
01/05/1981
The first full scale mock-up of a wall section, made in the C.E.S. office, to test the combination of wood cladding on the interior side of the wall and the concrete surface on the exterior.
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Berryessa Terraced House: Erecting the timber framing structure - Photographs
01/01/1983
Three photographs depicting the timber framing works, starting with the 6″x6″ Douglas Fir posts, and then the perimeter 6″x8″ perimeter beams and cross beams.
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Berryessa Terraced House: Erecting the timber framing structure - Photographs
01/01/1983
Two photographs depicting the timber framing works completed, including the secondary 4″x6″ roof beams and the living room alcove framing.
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