Exposed Oak Beams: You Have to Duck to Enter

A ceiling made of exposed oak beams. Thick, square beams span the entire room, spaced about one meter apart, with their undersides only two meters from the floor, so tall people must be careful. The beams are not planed straight but retain axe marks and the natural curvature of the wood. Their surface has turned dark brown, almost black, due to age, with small wormholes and traces of nailed iron fittings. Between the beams, the ceiling is white lime plaster, unevenly adhering to the floor above. Because the beams are very deep, the room is divided into a grid, and light and shadow create a strong horizontal rhythm within it. Avoid: planing the beams straight and square, using fake decorative wooden beams attached to a flat ceiling, making the beams the light yellow color of new wood, making the ceiling high and losing the sense of compression.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一個由外露橡木樑構成的天花。粗大的方樑橫過整個房間,間距約一米,底面距地只有兩米,高個子必須留意;樑不是刨得筆直的,而是保留斧劈的痕跡與木材本身的彎曲,表面因為年代久遠已經變成暗褐近黑,有蟲蛀的小孔與釘過的鐵件痕跡。樑與樑之間是白色的石灰粉刷,凹凸不平地貼著上方的樓板。因為樑很深,房間被切成一格一格,光影在其間形成強烈的橫向節奏。避免:把樑刨得筆直方正、使用假的裝飾木樑貼在平天花上、讓樑的顏色是新木的淺黃、把天花做高失去壓迫感。