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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) is a term used for a natural building method in which short logs are piled crosswise to build a wall, using mortar or cob to ...
Reconstructed crannog on Loch Tay, Scotland. A roundhouse is a type of house with a circular plan, usually with a conical roof. In the later part of the 20th century, modern designs of roundhouse eco-buildings were constructed with materials such as cob, cordwood or straw bale walls and reciprocal frame green roofs.
Between the structural posts are cordwood walls; this technique was common in the pioneer days of North America. The building has a green roof planted with grapes and other productive and native plants, over a pond liner and straw insulation. The cost of the 10-metre (33 ft) diameter building has been reported at around £3,000.
American historic carpentry is the historic methods with which wooden buildings were built in what is now the United States since European settlement. A number of methods were used to form the wooden walls and the types of structural carpentry are often defined by the wall, floor, and roof construction such as log, timber framed, balloon framed ...
Washington School is a building in Grand Forks, North Dakota that was built in 1907. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. [1] [2]It was designed by William J. Edwards in Classical Revival style, and was built by contractors Melby & Standahl.
Now the internet is up in arms. Maggie Smith, 32, walked back to her car in stunned silence. The Alabaman had gotten dressed up, applied make-up and made her way to a restaurant for dinner with ...
A cordwood module Cordwood construction was used in proximity fuzes. Cordwood construction can save significant space and was often used with wire-ended components in applications where space was at a premium (such as fuzes, missile guidance, and telemetry systems) and in high-speed computers, where short traces were important. In cordwood ...
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