Half-Timbering: Structure or Veneer?

A sectional comparison of two wall segments. The original version is a true timber frame: oak posts and beams bear the load, with wattle and daub or brick infill between the grids. The timber sections are thick, joints are mortise and tenon with wooden pegs, and lines follow the natural curvature of the wood, not perfectly straight. The revival version is a brick wall with thin wooden boards applied to the exterior and painted black. The boards are straight and of uniform width, unrelated to the structure. Avoid: depicting the revival version as the original, making the timber lines perfectly straight, ignoring the traces of joinery and wooden pegs, or depicting the infill material as cement plaster.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

兩段牆的剖切比較。原版是真正的木構架:橡木柱樑承重,格子之間填編條抹灰或磚,木材的斷面厚實、接頭是榫卯與木釘,線條隨木料的彎曲而不完全筆直;復興版是磚牆外貼薄木板再漆黑,木板筆直等寬、與結構無關。避免:把復興版當成原版畫、讓木料的線條完美筆直、忽略榫接與木釘的痕跡、把填充材畫成水泥粉光。