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The Bennati House, in Lake Arrowhead, California. Rudolph Schindler's original A-frame design, 1934. An example of an A-frame house in Gillette, Wyoming Traditional A-frame thatched house (palheiro), Santana, Madeira, Portugal An A-frame house owned and restored by Nicky Panicci in the Hollywood Hills, an example of an architectural A-frame.
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An A-frame building has framing with little or no walls, the rafters join at the ridge forming an A shape. This is the simplest type of framing but has historically been used for inexpensive cottages and farm shelters until the A-frame house was popularized in the 1950s as a style of vacation home in the United States.
Beauport was built starting in 1908 as the summer home of interior decorator and antique collector Henry Davis Sleeper.Situated on the rocks overlooking Gloucester Harbor, Sleeper repeatedly enlarged and modified the structure, and filled it with a large collection of fine art, folk art, architectural artifacts, and other collectible materials.
An A-frame used as shears on top of an M32 armored recovery vehicle A sawhorse can be formed by connecting two A-frames along the length of a beam A-frame utility pole in Germany An A-frame is a basic structure designed to bear a load in a lightweight economical manner.
The Fairbanks House in Dedham, Massachusetts is a historic house built around 1641, [1] [2] making it the oldest surviving timber-frame house in North America that has been verified by dendrochronology testing. Puritan settler Jonathan Fairbanks constructed the farm house for his wife Grace (née Smith) and their family. It was occupied and ...
They stop the sun from entering the interior during the summer, and they allow the low rays of sun to warm the house during the winter. Often there is a timber-floored veranda (engawa (縁側 or 掾側)) around the house under the eaves and protected on the outside by storm shutters. In areas where there is heavy snow there may be a lowered ...