Just thinking about construction types I can use for the major assignment. This article is an example of a church built with this method. I think it achieves a very beautiful effect when the portals are exposed. The use of timber is also encouragable for its environmental benefits.
However, it seems timber portal frames are not so widespread currently. They are an engineered product and each building is one-off as opposed to being quickly commercially designed and produced as is the case with steel portal frames. AS a result, infomration is scarce in comparison.
Go to http://www.timber.org.au/NTEP/resources/08s.pdf for the pdf article.
This building uses LVL portals which can be quite heavy and deep but the effects of the layering is attractive and the strenght of LVL combined overcomes the smaller inevitable defects of each layer.
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