Metro Arts and Architecture - Metro Bits - mic-ro.co(s)m [growabrain]

Roofs is a page that meticulously describes the problems that occur with sloping ridges and other complicated polygonal footprints.

To make any roof plan:

1. Draw the overall plan of the building with dotted line at locations where there are overhangs.
   
2. Create ridges at desired location (often halfway)
   
3. Create hips. These will bisect corners. If corners are square, then hip will be at a 45° angle.
   
4. Divide by number of feet of total rise and draw contours representing 1' rise.
   
5. Draw valleys at intersections of contours.
   
6. Draw overhangs as needed.
   

21.07.47soquel_trip on Flickr - Photo Sharing!: this is what an agricultural camp looks like, Hwy 1 near Davenport.

Written Documentation & Interpretation - including The Project Resource Manual - CSI Manual of Practice (PRM), etc.

VRML in Architectural Construction Documentation: no relief in sight to ease the CD crunch

the day, the night: architect's tools

California Corner Framing details to get more insulation into a building

San Francisco Prize : Announcement and someone wants to do this.

J O N | W O R D E N | A R C H I T E C T S has useful research pages. The one on green roofs is very inspiring.

The Stage Crew: Stairs & Odd 3D Shapes:

Rise + Run should equal 18"

This page includes schematic illustrations of different kinds of wood stairs.

Math Concepts - 3DSoftware.com. Here is a fascinating look at a variety of concepts from analytic geometry, calculus and trigonometry. It provides the basics in case they've gone away. The matrix is very useful in computer graphics, but once the routine is written...

Fields How-To - Stair and Landing Construction, first of a number of posts on stairs. Trying to design a complicated stair and not quite succeeding, or actually, not recognizing success when it's there on the screen--just stop--wieighs heavily today.

Arudou Debito/Dave Aldwinckle's Page for Longer-Term Residents of Japan, house building chicanery.

Owner Builder Solutions: Japan Window is going to buy one of these, put it in a shipping container and build it in Japan.

Response of Traditional Wooden Japanese Construction. A UC professor analyzes failures of timber frame houses in earthquakes. They are top heavy and have nothing to resist lateral forces.

Designing a home in six easy steps, what to do before CAD.

v-2 Organisation | news | Three vocabularies: Byoungsoo Cho Architects

Elastico.net: USA, 1872-1991, USGS earthquake and dramatic landscape.

41_futuro.jpg (JPEG Image, 500x375 pixels) mini & futuro via fark

IKEA | home | Children's IKEA | Children's furniture | FARTFULL work bench, oh poor trenches

SIGNATURE STYLE: Claude Oakland / Modern homes for the masses