Log building

Log cabin (also Blockwerk, Gewättbau and Strickbau called ) is a timber construction technique that has been known since the Neolithic. It is a solid construction, which is widespread in Europe and Asia, mainly in construction (block house) and is used for other fixed structures. These include, for example, fortifications, wells and water structures, foundation and foundation structures.

The block construction is next to the post and beam construction, the second fundamental form of construction in wood construction. The combination, therefore encompassed block or plank plant in an upright frames, called Ständerbohlenbau.

Structural Engineering

The block wall which rests usually on a stone foundation or hardwood frames ( Fußbäumen ), is formed by the stacking of wood lying. The length of the available master wood determines the size of the floor plan usually rectangular or square building. The wood can be installed as round logs or edged beam, omnipresent, for to take advantage of the full timber, alternately the thinner comes to rest on the thick end of the stem. The thus- layered walls penetrate at the corners using Verkämmungen or Verblattungen of each timber ( the main room of the carpenter and the rooms have the name, or called shot ). The trees can only be arbitrated, or among themselves nailed ( pegged ) be flush or with a tight sealing filling ( about moss or oakum ), for airy buildings ( barn, barns and hayloft) even at a distance. In multi-room buildings, the interior walls, unless they are solidly built, will also verkämmt or verblattet with the outer walls; they are then as vertical rows of timber heads visible from the outside ( decorated as an ornamental, painting, Klingschrot ). Further developments of the modern era tend to galvanized corners that protrude only a little or not at all from the façade to facilitate the cladding of the facade. Also, to go about in a modern block building to gespundeten or gedichtetem with tongue and groove joint block work.

History

The log cabin was one of the most original designs of western cultures since time immemorial; Vitruvius (II, 1.4 ), for example, subsumes the Colchian Blockbautradition - meaning the ancient region of Paphlagonia, in modern-day Turkey - under the " beginnings " of building the house that were still handed down in the " foreign nations " in his time. In fact, there are now plenty of evidence that the block construction technology has been a popular construction mainly in Central Europe since prehistoric times. She came since Neolithic times during well drilling, from the 2nd millennium BC, when building a house for use, an important archaeological site of this is the Swiss Savognin Padnal. In the Iron Age, the design was also used for hill grave chambers, important examples of this are the tumuli of Gordion or the Scythian royal graves in the Russian Altai mountains. In Roman times, there are references to forts and watchtowers in block construction, Vitruvius II, 9, 59 describes a corresponding tower in connection with the taking of the city Larignum by Julius Caesar. In construction, the construction seems to have been used until today it continues even if the oldest standing log homes date from the Middle Ages.

A renaissance the log cabin, the fire-resistant as little since the early modern period, permanent and total outdated was, in contemporary timber where it - all fire regulations fulfilling - in the prefabricated building technology plays an important role, and modern demands energy-efficient and sustainable building complies.

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