We continued the
post-and-beam look on the rest of the shed, using the 2x10 beams to support the wide roof overhangs.
Since Friday Hardwick Post and Beam has been working on site to frame the
post-and-beam portion of the barn, which is being constructed without nails.
I was able to get a whole load of logs from a forest thinning project and will use them for a
post-and-beam framework.
The first is a low-angle shot that shows part of a complex Japanese
post-and-beam roof; the other, Untitled (Greenwood, Mississippi), 1973-74, is the now almost iconic view of a red ceiling with an electric bulb at its center.
Kiefco Financial Marketing Products has developed a freestanding
post-and-beam structure designed to display marketing messages to ATM users.
One cost-cutting strategy is the staggered-truss system; which relies on geometry to reduce the weight of a building's steel frame, unlike
post-and-beam construction.
In a system developed by David Easton of Rammed Earth Works, the panels are then incorporated into a concrete
post-and-beam frame.
The design of this roof resembles traditional
post-and-beam construction, but without the headaches of working with heavy, expensive timber and the tricky joinery that goes with it.
You can build an elegant
post-and-beam deck, chiseling mortises in massive vertical posts to accept tenons cut into the horizontals, then drill and peg the joints.
Unavoidable realities in an A-framehouse--the roof's form and the exposed
post-and-beam framework on the interior --make remodeling a challenge.
