Single Wall vs Double Wall Construction

[adias]

I remember having a serious discussion on single frame /double frame with LeilaniGuy and others. Didn’t realize at the time, the ancestor of the Hawaii sugar cane plantation, Minka, is actually a Timber Frame. I guess the difference is that the single wall structures build in Hawaii didn’t use joinery, which makes it a post and beam?

Took a one week workshop in Timber Framing in Maine. It was pretty amazing, in one week a bunch of newbies build a four frame structure 24x36 and got it up...Not a single nail was used..



Edited by - adias on 06/12/2007 02:08:51