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Martinez Heavy Timber Carpentry Workshop: Heavy Timber Construction Details – Photographs of drawings

01/01/1985

Sketches

Photographs of two sketches by Christopher Alexander showing the connection of the column to the concrete base through a square steel pin.

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Construction Innovation 1 Items

Martinez Heavy Timber Carpentry Workshop: Heavy timber construction details 1985

Construction System, Heavy Timber Load Bearing Structure

Concrete column base and timber column connection; timber capital where column, beam and braces meet and other timber connection details.

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Heavy Timber Carpentry Workshop 1985 to 1986

4207 Arthur Road, 94553, Martinez, CA, U.S.A.

Offices & Workshops, Realized , Construction completed in Apr-1986

The third building completed on the Martinez site was a heavy timber carpentry workshop, 800 square feet of floor area, with 12"x12" columns and 8"x14" beams, specially engineered trusses and wood paneling. .