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6 January 2020
Cottonwood Cabin Notes II

Large overhangs, stilts, steel rafters, exposed framing

Glen Murcutt, Marika-Alderton House, 1990-1994

Woodpile wall, protected passageway

Shim-Sutcliffe Architects, Lowry House, 2014

Exposed rafters

Shim-Sutcliffe Architects, Muskoka Boathouse, 1999

Roof frame construction. Rough framing, like in a barn or a mill, rather than a timber frame. Doubled- and tripled-up members. Use of salvaged steel plate for stiffening truss overhangs.


Stilts + clerestories...

Olson Kundig, Various

Cottonwood Cabin renderings