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07-11-2013, 12:03 PM #1
Post/Pier Foundation on Sloping Site
If you were doing this type of building would you:
1. Just use a Pier Foundation with the Main Floor directly above?
2. Use a Pier Foundation and add a Floor area using Invisible Walls with Posts and Beams to support the Main Floor?
3. A combination with Grade Beams?
4. Some other method?
I've tried the first 2 but both seem to have limitations in Chief Architect. I was thinking about the 3rd but it's not a simple thing to accomplish. Maybe I could use Terrain Walls for the Grade Beams.Joseph P. Carrick, Architect - AIA
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07-11-2013, 01:52 PM #2
Is this example I used a standard foundation then selected the foundation and deleted. Changed the floor structure to include beams. Added posts and polyline solid foundation piers.
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07-11-2013, 02:08 PM #3
So you created the foundation just so you could frame the first floor?
Joseph P. Carrick, Architect - AIA
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07-11-2013, 02:11 PM #4
Hey Bill,
My sister lives in Lacey. When I was in my 20's I spent some time at my cousin's cabin at Goss Lake on Whidbey Island. That was about 50 years ago so I imagine that some things have changed.Joseph P. Carrick, Architect - AIA
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07-11-2013, 02:21 PM #5
Joe,
The foundation was created for the framing then deleted it.
Gross lake is a medium pond, it's where the runoff goes. The lake is about five miles from me. I look out to Puget sound and the cruise ships.William Page Architects A.I.A.
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07-11-2013, 02:31 PM #6Joseph P. Carrick, Architect - AIA
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07-11-2013, 02:36 PM #7
Most of the lots on the waterfront have a house on them. I have been on Whidbey island for twenty years.
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