Timber framing
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Timber framing and "post-and-beam" construction are traditional methods of building with heavy timbers, creating structures using squared-off and carefully fitted and joined timbers with joints secure
The market square of Dornstetten, Germany, showing an ensemble of half-timbered buildings
Rue du Gros-Horloge in Rouen, France, a city renowned for its half-timbered buildings
Lemgo, Germany, downtown
Strasbourg, sculptures on the timber framing of a half-timbered house.
Wattle and daub
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Wattle and daub is a composite building method in which a woven lattice of wooden strips called "wattle" is "daubed" with a sticky material usually made of some combination of wet soil, clay, sand, an
Timber framing
…Gallery of infill types: The earliest known type of infill, called opus craticum by the Romans, was a wattle and daub type construction. Opus craticum is now confusingly applied to a Roman stone/mortar infill as well. Similar methods to wattle and daub were also used…
Wattle and daub in wooden frames
A wattle and daub house as used by Native Americans of the Mississippian culture
A woven wattle gate keeps animals out of a 15th-century cabbage patch. (Tacuinum Sanitatis, Rouen)
Wattle panel