CONCEPT OF PROPOSED HOUSE AND OUTLINE FOR STRUCTURAL PERFORMANCE-Development of wooden post & beam construction by utilizing natural construction materials (Part 1)-

In this paper, we proposed an unique wooden residential house which contains a lot of new structural proposals such as small prefabricated mud shear walls, beam-column frame system in which one direction is composed of built-up beam made of Sugi thick boards while the other direction is composed of traditional insert type Hijiki joint using conventional Sugi girder, improved timber board shear wall system and rigid floor system assembled with thick Sugi plywood and so on. By constructing a real wooden house, possibilities of our structural proposals were examined.