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  2. Timber framing - Wikipedia

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    The tops of the posts are joined to a beam and the spaces between are filled in with natural materials called bousillage or pierrotage. Poteaux-sur-sol (posts on a sill) is a general term for any kind of framing on a sill. However, sometimes it specifically refers to "vertical log construction" like poteaux-en-terre placed on sills with the ...

  3. Post (structural) - Wikipedia

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    Timber framing is a general term for building with wooden posts and beams. The term post is the namesake of other general names for timber framing such as post-and-beam, post-and-girt construction and more specific types of timber framing such as Post and lintel, post-frame, post in ground, and ridge-post construction.

  4. Viga (architecture) - Wikipedia

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    Engelmann spruce is preferred because of "wood character and lack of cracking," but Ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) is more commonly used. [7] Because the availability of vigas longer than 15 feet is limited by the size of the trees cut for the purpose, traditional viga-constructed rooms are typically less than 15 feet (4.6 m) wide. [8]

  5. American historic carpentry - Wikipedia

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    A timber bridge or wooden bridge is a bridge that uses timber or wood as its principal structural material. One of the first forms of bridge, those of timber have been used since ancient times. Wooden bridges could be a deck-only structure or a deck with a roof. Wooden bridges were often a single span, but could be of multiple spans.

  6. List of partitions of traditional Japanese architecture

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    Unperforated wooden or metallic panels, usually sliding. Run in a groove outside the pillars, and usually outside the engawa (porch). Stacked in a to-bukuro when not in use. 1600s-present Garasu-do (wiktionary:ガラス戸, lit. "glass door") See shoji article for limited details. more images: Glass panels Mullioned or single-pane.

  7. Florida cracker architecture - Wikipedia

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    Florida cracker architecture or Southern plantation style is a style of vernacular architecture typified by a low slung, wood-frame house, with a large porch. It was widespread in the 19th and early 20th century. Some elements of the style are still popular as a source of design themes.

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