TIMBER-FRAME STRUCTURE AND TREE SPECIES COMPOSITION OF A FARMHOUSE IN IIYAMA, IN THE CENTRAL JAPANESE SNOWBELT

Autor:	Takahiro Shoji, Toshikazu Tsuchimoto, Hideyuki Ida, Shigeo Hoyano
Rok vydání:	2010
Předmět:	Engineering biology business.industry Ecology Zelkova Architecture Forestry Building and Construction business biology.organism_classification Tree species Beech
Zdroj:	AIJ Journal of Technology and Design. 16:387-392
ISSN:	1881-8188 1341-9463
Popis:	We analyzed the structural details of a farmhouse in the central Japanese snowbelt. The core structure was characterized by large pillars and beams, suggesting that the house is suited to resist heavy snowfalls. Almost all of the structural timbers (302 pieces) in the house consisted of four tree species: beech, oak, zelkova and cedar. Specifically, the main pillars and beams were mostly beech, the dominant species in the adjacent forests. This suggests that beech provided appropriately large timbers for the load-bearing structures of houses. Consequently, beech would have been useful in the construction of houses in heavy snowfall areas.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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