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Japan has a history of more than a thousand years of solid wooden building construction as exemplified by Horyuji Temple and Todaiji Temple in Nara. The tradition is also put to use in residential house construction. One of the technologies used is tomogi-tsukuri. In this technology, timbers from the same forest are used to make exquisitely accurate structures. However, now that the conservation of forest resources is called for from the viewpoint of environmental protection, it has become extremely difficult to use the technology in the construction of ordinary houses. The development of residential house construction material by Nippon Steel Corp such as steel-framed houses aims at creating the tomogi-tsukuri for the new millennium, whereby steel materials which are lighter than wooden materials and qualitatively superior, particularly in dimensional accuracy, are used as structural members, sparing valuable wooden materials for parts of which people actually appreciate the feel and appearance.
Japan has a history of more than a thousand years of solid wooden building construction as exemplified by Horyuji Temple and Todaiji Temple in Nara. The tradition is also put to use in residential house construction. One of the technologies used is tomogi-tsukuri. In this technology, timbers from the same forest are used to make exquisitely accurate structures. However, now that the conservation of forest resources is called for from the viewpoint of environmental protection, it has become extremely difficult to use the technology in the construction of ordinary houses. The development of residential house construction material by Nippon Steel Corp such as steel-framed houses aims at creating the tomogi-tsukuri for the new millennium, whereby steel materials which are lighter than wooden materials and qualitatively superior, particularly in dimensional accuracy, are used as structural members, sparing valuable wooden materials for parts of which people actually appreciate the feel and appearance.
Tomogi-Tsukuri for the twenty-first century
Tomogi-Tsukuri für das 21. Jahrhundert
Fukuda, K. (author)
1999
5 Seiten, 11 Bilder
Article (Journal)
English
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