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Subject: 
Half-timbered houses
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Wed, 23 Nov 2005 11:45:47 GMT
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Hi all!

People have been building a specific style of half timered houses (and villages)
for some time now.
Another example is new on BS, which in spired me to write this:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=77800

All houses seem to be build with the 1st floor of stone, the second floor and up
are half-timbered.
I wonder where this comes from, as a Dane I cannot recoqnise it. Half timbered
houses in Denmark are "full timbered" - like mine:
http://my.tele2.ee/sonnich/lego/build/golden_lion.htm

Walking though an ole place in Denmark would be something like:
http://www.dengamleby.dk/

So, where does this idea come from, that the first floor is made of stone?

BR
Sonnich



Message has 3 Replies:
  Re: Half-timbered houses
 
(...) it's not unheard of. (...) I think you ask an interesting question... I don't know why I do it that way, mostly because everyone else does? Most of the early CCC buildings are done that way, Dan Siskind's Blacksmith Shop set is done that way, (...) (19 years ago, 23-Nov-05, to lugnet.build.arch)  
  Re: Half-timbered houses
 
(...) Sonnich, I know I've seen pictures of half-timbered houses in older German and French villages, they may be more common there than in Denmark. The medieval city with narrow streets and half-timbered houses overhanging the street at higher (...) (19 years ago, 23-Nov-05, to lugnet.build.arch)
  Re: Half-timbered houses
 
(...) created around 1850 that wooden buildings were not allowed to be more than two stories high (because of the risk of fire). To get around this limitation a unique (for Sweden) house style emerged: the lower story made of stone (or sometimes (...) (19 years ago, 23-Nov-05, to lugnet.build.arch)

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