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

01/01/1985

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View of the timber posts with the mortises and tenons shaped for connecting the posts to their concrete base, in two versions.

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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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Strong Centers in all Levels of Scale

A building can only amount to something as a living thing when the various physical elements which appear in it are profound centers. The dominant feature of the process that is working correctly is that new centers are formed, and ...

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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. .