Very informative! I knew the resourcefulness of traditional Japanese architecture was impressive but never realized the ingenuity around its intent to withstand earthquakes from a physics point of view! Traditional Japanese architecture just got a whole lot cooler! Thank you 🙏🏼
You should show your friends of earthquake tests using chinese (forbidden palace design) and traditional japanese house surviving the simulated quakes. All their beams just set on stone. There are videos on RUclips. Since wood is light and because it uses joinery the structure just moves with the quake. In any other building the rigidity would cause the structure to break upon itself.
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@@AeonCatalyst There are houses designed with typhoon in mind but really this all depends on where you live because maybe they're blessed to experience none of these phenomenon but for you you're describing an event that is most likely unique to your situation thus buildes in your area should develop such a structure based on that. Here century old houses made of timber survived a strong typhoon just year ago in my country while the rest of cement ones were flattened. If not the timber frame or foundation most had to do with its architectural style at the time.
that's crazy that the house is just sitting there by gravity alone, and that you could literally lift the thing with a bunch of cranes and set it down somewhere else in one piece (theoretically)
Aren't most American pre-WWII era houses the same way? Whether they're resting on independent rocks/piers or a foundation that continues around the entire perimeter, either way they're normally (at least traditionally) just sitting there by gravity alone, right?
I don't understand what you mean. What particularly do ballast stones in railways do? Do they just provide a layer that doesn't move like the surface layer of soil does with freezing and changes in moisture? Or is there more to it than that?
@@patrickcleburneuczjsxpmp9558when the track moves the stones interlock with each other strengthening its support. That’s why ballast stones are jagged and not smooth as the latter would just slide from each other.
Saludos muy buen video felicitaciones. Talves hay algún manual donde se pueda encontrar las especificaciones de esta metodología tanto en diseño como construcción?? Si lo podrían facilitar fuera excelente. Saludos cordiales.
What I wonder about is the slab on grade. I saw a video where a house was built traditional, except it was slab on grade. in that video, and in your sketch, it seems water would pool on the slab, becoming like a wading pool beneath the house. In that video, it rained and water pooled all around the slab.
The foundation would be unlikely to work in the location where I live, with 10-20 meters of river clay before you get to sand - the stones would just sink.
Clay is denser than sand. Granted, I'm sure there's a theoretical limit to how many pounds each square inch of subsoil can support, but I wouldn't think it would be any problem for a regular house, not if the rocks were spaced at the distances you would want to space them for the sake of the connecting beams anyways.
How do they match the wood stake's bottom with the stone top? Is it extremely hard? I heard that ancient Mayan stone walls tight fitting is a lost art that no one knows how to build it anymore? How about this Japanese skill of aligning the wood and the stone?
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Very informative! I knew the resourcefulness of traditional Japanese architecture was impressive but never realized the ingenuity around its intent to withstand earthquakes from a physics point of view! Traditional Japanese architecture just got a whole lot cooler! Thank you 🙏🏼
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Love this video. Thanks so much for the information.
Great video. Thanks.
Thank you. I have been debating between slab and piles for my new build in Nee Zealand. This helps a lot.
I came here from Mr Chickadee's.
Fascinating, yet my builder/carpenter friends still don't believe it can work.
You should show your friends of earthquake tests using chinese (forbidden palace design) and traditional japanese house surviving the simulated quakes. All their beams just set on stone. There are videos on RUclips. Since wood is light and because it uses joinery the structure just moves with the quake. In any other building the rigidity would cause the structure to break upon itself.
@@k.3004 Will do-👍🏻
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There is still the issue of lateral loading from wind. Something that can resist an earthquake might not resist an 80mph wind in the great plains...
@@AeonCatalyst There are houses designed with typhoon in mind but really this all depends on where you live because maybe they're blessed to experience none of these phenomenon but for you you're describing an event that is most likely unique to your situation thus buildes in your area should develop such a structure based on that. Here century old houses made of timber survived a strong typhoon just year ago in my country while the rest of cement ones were flattened. If not the timber frame or foundation most had to do with its architectural style at the time.
Grazie per questo bellissimo video e complimenti 👍👏
that's crazy that the house is just sitting there by gravity alone, and that you could literally lift the thing with a bunch of cranes and set it down somewhere else in one piece (theoretically)
Aren't most American pre-WWII era houses the same way? Whether they're resting on independent rocks/piers or a foundation that continues around the entire perimeter, either way they're normally (at least traditionally) just sitting there by gravity alone, right?
4:36 the rocks beneath the large stones kind of act like ballast stones as we see in railways me thinks
I don't understand what you mean. What particularly do ballast stones in railways do? Do they just provide a layer that doesn't move like the surface layer of soil does with freezing and changes in moisture? Or is there more to it than that?
@@patrickcleburneuczjsxpmp9558when the track moves the stones interlock with each other strengthening its support. That’s why ballast stones are jagged and not smooth as the latter would just slide from each other.
Saludos muy buen video felicitaciones. Talves hay algún manual donde se pueda encontrar las especificaciones de esta metodología tanto en diseño como construcción?? Si lo podrían facilitar fuera excelente. Saludos cordiales.
What I wonder about is the slab on grade. I saw a video where a house was built traditional, except it was slab on grade. in that video, and in your sketch, it seems water would pool on the slab, becoming like a wading pool beneath the house. In that video, it rained and water pooled all around the slab.
The foundation would be unlikely to work in the location where I live, with 10-20 meters of river clay before you get to sand - the stones would just sink.
Clay is denser than sand. Granted, I'm sure there's a theoretical limit to how many pounds each square inch of subsoil can support, but I wouldn't think it would be any problem for a regular house, not if the rocks were spaced at the distances you would want to space them for the sake of the connecting beams anyways.
How do they match the wood stake's bottom with the stone top? Is it extremely hard?
I heard that ancient Mayan stone walls tight fitting is a lost art that no one knows how to build it anymore? How about this Japanese skill of aligning the wood and the stone?
There's a youtube channel called Mr. Chickadee with a video titled "Scribing Post to Stone" if you want to see one example.