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  2. Wattle and daub - Wikipedia

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    Wattle and daub is a composite building method used for making walls and buildings, in which a woven lattice of wooden strips called "wattle" is "daubed" with a sticky material usually made of some combination of wet soil, clay, sand, and straw. Wattle and daub has been used for at least 6,000 years and is still an important construction method ...

  3. Portable building - Wikipedia

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    The use of these words as generic descriptions of portable buildings has caused contention amongst some manufacturers. [ 6 ] The "Portakabin" spelling with a 'k' is a trademark owned by Shepherd Building Group 's Portakabin Ltd to identify its range of relocatable and modular buildings but is often used as a generic trademark to mean any ...

  4. Cordwood construction - Wikipedia

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    Cordwood masonry wall detail. The method is sometimes called stackwall because the effect resembles a stack of cordwood. A section of a cordwood home. Cordwood construction (also called cordwood masonry or cordwood building, alternatively stackwall or stovewood particularly in Canada) is a term used for a natural building method in which short logs are piled crosswise to build a wall, using ...

  5. Cabin Porn (book) - Wikipedia

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    Cabin Porn: Inspiration for Your Quiet Place Somewhere is a 2015 photo-book published by Little, Brown and Company and edited by American entrepreneur Zach Klein. [1] It was also published in the UK by Penguin Books. [2] The book is a sequel to Klein's 2009 Tumblr blog by the same name. [3]

  6. House plan - Wikipedia

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    Elevation view of the Panthéon, Paris principal façade Floor plans of the Putnam House. A house plan [1] is a set of construction or working drawings (sometimes called blueprints) that define all the construction specifications of a residential house such as the dimensions, materials, layouts, installation methods and techniques.

  7. Curtain wall (architecture) - Wikipedia

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    A curtain wall is an exterior covering of a building in which the outer walls are non-structural, instead serving to protect the interior of the building from the elements. Because the curtain wall façade carries no structural load beyond its own dead load weight, it can be made of lightweight materials.

  8. Skyscraper design and construction - Wikipedia

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    A shear wall, in its simplest definition, is a wall where the entire material of the wall is employed in the resistance of both horizontal and vertical loads. A typical example is a brick or cinderblock wall. Since the wall material is used to hold the weight, as the wall expands in size, it must hold considerably more weight.

  9. Log cabin - Wikipedia

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    Built in 1640, C. A. Nothnagle Log House, located in Swedesboro, New Jersey, is likely the oldest log cabin in the United States. A conjectural replica of the log cabin in which U.S. president Abraham Lincoln was born, now at the Abraham Lincoln Birthplace Mortonson–Van Leer Log Cabin in New Sweden Park in Swedesboro, New Jersey A replica log cabin at Valley Forge in Pennsylvania A log house ...