12-13-2009, 07:46 PM
Just for GP here's some examples from some recent things I've been working on.
Here's a pier based structure that is pinned to the rock it stands on, a view based guest studio designed for use on Buck Mountain on Orcas Island, San Juan County, Wa. -
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4041/4184...f3f3_o.png
Here's an old original design for our house in Hawaii that we scrapped and uses footing and column *Note; there's no rafting pad used, this is because of the concrete 12"x30" suspended rafting beams at floor level well above grade and they act to provide shear (resistance to lateral loads - earthquake and winds) between the columns and with the floor system installed between them, it keeps the columns relationally fixed to one another -
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4037/4184...0734_o.png
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2591/4183...a9a9_o.png
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4008/4184...2839_b.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2739/4184...85b8_b.jpg
Here's what we're settling for now and it's a mix of turn down footing slab on grade with footing and column supports on the upper envelope extrusions. With the exception of two column footings the remaining column footings are tied via a simple rafting pad-
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4006/4184...8c38_o.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2721/4184...3ff7_o.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2724/4184...9066_o.jpg
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4002/4184...3d7b_o.jpg
There are several other types of foundations not shown above.
Just to make it clear incase some-one is about to flag the chosen exterior products on the house design we ended up choosing. There's no wood, it's a cladding composed of a product similar to Richlite countertop material but Made by Klip Tech and it's called EcoClad with a simulated Walnut Grain veneer over a bi-composite board.
The rest is polished and brushed SS with corrugated SS or perhaps Galvalume or we'll just use common steel corrugated unfinished and allowed to rust for a couple years until we have it treated and then sealed.
http://www.kliptech.com/ecoclad.html
E ho'a'o no i pau kuhihewa.
Here's a pier based structure that is pinned to the rock it stands on, a view based guest studio designed for use on Buck Mountain on Orcas Island, San Juan County, Wa. -
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4041/4184...f3f3_o.png
Here's an old original design for our house in Hawaii that we scrapped and uses footing and column *Note; there's no rafting pad used, this is because of the concrete 12"x30" suspended rafting beams at floor level well above grade and they act to provide shear (resistance to lateral loads - earthquake and winds) between the columns and with the floor system installed between them, it keeps the columns relationally fixed to one another -
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4037/4184...0734_o.png
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2591/4183...a9a9_o.png
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4008/4184...2839_b.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2739/4184...85b8_b.jpg
Here's what we're settling for now and it's a mix of turn down footing slab on grade with footing and column supports on the upper envelope extrusions. With the exception of two column footings the remaining column footings are tied via a simple rafting pad-
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4006/4184...8c38_o.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2721/4184...3ff7_o.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2724/4184...9066_o.jpg
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4002/4184...3d7b_o.jpg
There are several other types of foundations not shown above.
Just to make it clear incase some-one is about to flag the chosen exterior products on the house design we ended up choosing. There's no wood, it's a cladding composed of a product similar to Richlite countertop material but Made by Klip Tech and it's called EcoClad with a simulated Walnut Grain veneer over a bi-composite board.
The rest is polished and brushed SS with corrugated SS or perhaps Galvalume or we'll just use common steel corrugated unfinished and allowed to rust for a couple years until we have it treated and then sealed.
http://www.kliptech.com/ecoclad.html
E ho'a'o no i pau kuhihewa.