Author(s)

Keqiang Chen ¹, Jian Yang ¹, Jiaxiong Liu ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ School of Architecture and Art Design, Hunan University of Science and Technology, Xiangtan, Hunan, China

Corresponding Author

Jian Yang

ABSTRACT

Irregular wood is a common problem for craftsmen engaged in wooden buildings, and the resulting errors always affect the production and installation of components. Through "fully using wood" and "retreat" processing methods, the palm ink master not only meets the construction requirements of non-specific specifications of wooden buildings, but also solves the error problem of wooden frame installation caused by wood size and bending. This paper takes Mr. Liu Anxi's new Tujia stilted building project as the research object, records the whole process of component processing, and introduces in detail Mr. Liu Anxi's two component production techniques of "fully using wood" and "retreat" in dealing with various types of wood. Through the analysis of the principle and process of these two techniques, it is intended to understand the artisanship thinking and consciousness in the production and construction of craftsmen and explore the practice mechanism of the palm ink master to reduce component errors. 

KEYWORDS

Tujia ethnic, stilted building, borrow ink, fully using wood, retreat

CITE THIS PAPER

Keqiang Chen, Jian Yang, Jiaxiong Liu, Fully Using Wood and "Retreat": The Generation and Solution of the Errors of Wooden Components in the Stilted Building of Tujia Nationality. Journal of Civil Engineering and Urban Planning (2022) Vol. 4: 39-48. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/jceup.2022.040306.

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