Berryessa House: Erecting the timber framing structure – Photographs

Timber 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 ...

One of the main topics of research, included in every building project, was to identify, early on in the design process, the material and techniques of construction. This would re-establish building as an art, and allow rapid shaping and adaptation, ...

Terraced house built for a couple; the house consists of six building volumes, gracefully positioned on a wooded slope among white oak trees, and includes the living room - kitchen volume, the studio volume, the bedroom - library volume, a ...

Four images of the concrete slabs and retaining walls after the formwork had been removed. In some of them the blue tiles embedded in the perimeter slab beam can be discerned.

Two images of connections between 6″x6″ Douglas fir posts and 6″x8″ Douglas fir main beams and 4″x6″ secondary beams through shaped doweled corbels.