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From: Bald Eagle
Subject: Crazy timber building
Date: 14 Oct 2014 01:05:01
Message: <web.543cae1b48d7898d5e7df57c0@news.povray.org>
http://www.archdaily.com/478633/tamedia-office-building-shigeru-ban-architects/

This is very cool, but strange...


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From: andrel
Subject: Re: Crazy timber building
Date: 14 Oct 2014 02:54:28
Message: <543CC890.2070604@gmail.com>
On 14-10-2014 7:01, Bald Eagle wrote:
> http://www.archdaily.com/478633/tamedia-office-building-shigeru-ban-architects/
>
> This is very cool, but strange...
>

Nice, but not a place I would like to work.
I like some privacy when I work, i.e. I don't want to be distracted by 
other peoples lack of privacy.


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necessary for her work there will be another hole in the firewall.


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From: Thomas de Groot
Subject: Re: Crazy timber building
Date: 14 Oct 2014 03:26:45
Message: <543cd035$1@news.povray.org>
On 14-10-2014 8:54, andrel wrote:
> On 14-10-2014 7:01, Bald Eagle wrote:
>> http://www.archdaily.com/478633/tamedia-office-building-shigeru-ban-architects/
>>
>>
>> This is very cool, but strange...
>>
>
> Nice, but not a place I would like to work.
> I like some privacy when I work, i.e. I don't want to be distracted by
> other peoples lack of privacy.
>
>
I agree. The last years of my career I worked in a semi open office, 
with 4 to 5 people per unit, no doors. It was not too bad but I missed 
the time when I had my own private office.

Thomas


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From: Orchid Win7 v1
Subject: Re: Crazy timber building
Date: 14 Oct 2014 14:34:26
Message: <543d6cb2$1@news.povray.org>
On 14/10/2014 06:01 AM, Bald Eagle wrote:
> This is very cool, but strange...

I don't know about strange - looks quite inviting to me. And it's far 
too normal to be described as "crazy".


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From: Bald Eagle
Subject: Re: Crazy timber building
Date: 14 Oct 2014 16:45:00
Message: <web.543d8af4c54eaf2c5e7df57c0@news.povray.org>
Orchid Win7 v1 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:

> I don't know about strange - looks quite inviting to me. And it's far
> too normal to be described as "crazy".

I think the first thing that struck me as odd were the round joints and
cylindrical tenons.  I was wondering how it wasn't tilting like a parallelogram.
Granted, it has supports, but I would have thought there would be resistance to
folding inherent in the joints.
I've also never seen such large timbers with such tightly machined joints.

I like the inside of the building, but really don't like the way they did the
outside.


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From: Thomas de Groot
Subject: Re: Crazy timber building
Date: 15 Oct 2014 03:45:26
Message: <543e2616$1@news.povray.org>
On 14-10-2014 22:43, Bald Eagle wrote:
> Orchid Win7 v1 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>
>> I don't know about strange - looks quite inviting to me. And it's far
>> too normal to be described as "crazy".
>
> I think the first thing that struck me as odd were the round joints and
> cylindrical tenons.  I was wondering how it wasn't tilting like a parallelogram.
> Granted, it has supports, but I would have thought there would be resistance to
> folding inherent in the joints.
> I've also never seen such large timbers with such tightly machined joints.

I think that the way the 'parallelogram' is constructed prevents it from 
collapsing: two horizontal beams on each side of the columns in 
particular, and all tightly joined together by the horizontal cylinders. 
Consider also that composite wood beams like these have a far greater 
tensile strength than beams made of a single wood trunk/branch.

Thomas


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From: scott
Subject: Re: Crazy timber building
Date: 15 Oct 2014 04:05:43
Message: <543e2ad7@news.povray.org>
> I think the first thing that struck me as odd were the round joints and
> cylindrical tenons.  I was wondering how it wasn't tilting like a parallelogram.

I don't know if it's just the camera angles, but they look like 
elliptical tenons and joints, not circular. This might be the mechanism 
that provides the strength against folding over like a parallelogram. 
But saying that it would be no stronger than a cylindrical tenon glued 
in, so I don't know. Presumably the bases of the vertical columns are 
well and truly fixed into the ground, and not just on a pivot.


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