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Design Thinking from the 16th Century: The De l'Orme Solutio

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  Design Thinking from the 16th Century: The De l'Orme Solution #Philibert-de-l’Orme #structure   #Friction   #Pitched-Roof   #sustainability   #thinktank   #Future   #Japan   #Japanese-Earthquakes When designing a pitched roof, we have a number of choices, stick built, or truss, are the most common, but both need at some point quite large timber sections, and often long lengths. I started to write this article as a section for my Future page, and it will remain as that, but I realised that it was more than a future item, it was sustainability, Structure, and a classic alternative thinking process, or an article I could so easily add to my ThinkTank website. When facing the high cost and scarcity of massive structural timber in 16th-century France, architect Philibert de l'Orme   didn't seek a bigger budget; he sought a smarter way forward. His masterpiece, the Bois Cintrée system, detailed in his 1561 treatise, “New Inventions for Building...