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Some of the few buildings that resisted the Lisbon’s 1755 earthquake had a wooden cage structure. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaiola_(construction) https://e
by dbs 3y ago
Some of the few buildings that resisted the Lisbon’s 1755 earthquake had a wooden cage structure.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaiola_(construction) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaiola_(construction)
Reconstruction immediately after the earthquake saw a generalised adoption of this type of architecture.
- dv_dt 3y agoSeems like a wooden precursor to rebar now.
- LegitShady 3y agono. its a secondary structural system, not a composite material, so its basically something completely different.
- traveler01 3y agoYeah only then. Nowadays the city has basically no anti sismic construction so Lisbon is just a city waiting to be destroyed by a similar earthquake. Maybe will happen to be that old constructions will survive while new ones wont...