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Re: Half-timbered houses
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Date: 
Wed, 23 Nov 2005 17:19:52 GMT
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Sonnich Jensen wrote:

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

Not exactly 'timbered' houses, but in Gothenburg (Göteborg) there was a rule
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 brick) and two wooden ones above.

http://www.vartgoteborg.se/prod/sk/vargotnu.nsf/1/gamla_goteborg,landshovdingehus
http://hem.fyristorg.com/husvarnet/index.html

Maybe the same kind of rules has been used in earlier times in some places,
giving rise to this kind of house?


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  Half-timbered houses
 
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: (URL) houses seem to be build with the 1st floor of stone, the second floor (...) (19 years ago, 23-Nov-05, to lugnet.build.arch)

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