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

01/06/1986
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Five images of the timber members detailing.

Photograph:

  • 1) Connection of middle column to top beam with diagonal bracing and capital
  • 2) Connection of corner column to concrete footing with diagonal bracing
  • 3) Joining details of structural members at the top of the building corner
  • 4) Connection of middle column to concrete footing with diagonal bracings
  • 5) Top x-bracing along the building side
Content of
  • 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.
References
  • 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 ...
  • 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. .
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