Fachwerk сottage construction

Fahwerk houses - what is it?

Frame house building has long been used as the main way of building country houses and cottages around the world.

The construction of houses using the fachwerk technology is nothing more than a kind of frame housing construction.

The role of the supporting structure is played here by a frame made of wooden beams. In other words, it is a rigid frame made of timber, formed by a system of horizontal, vertical and inclined elements (struts, braces and beams), which provides the whole house with special strength and rigidity.

But the walls in this house play more protecting function and are not a supporting structure.

Features and benefits of fahwerk houses

A distinctive feature of fahwerk houses can rightly be considered that the supporting beams of the structure are not hidden, they can be seen from the outside and they look like a decorative element. This solution gives the facades in the style of fachwerk special charm, individuality and recognition.

For hundreds of years, during which fahwerk houses gained popularity around the world, construction technology has not changed much. It was only supplemented and improved in the light of modern techniques and methods of frame housing construction. All this once again underlines the fact that the fahwerk technology has a number of indisputable advantages:

The strength and lightness of the fahwerk construction make it possible to do without arranging a massive foundation;
Fahwerk houses do not shrink;
Fahwerk construction technology allows you to plan in the house of almost any configuration without the additional construction of load-bearing walls;
The process of building a house using the frame technology is carried out in the shortest possible time;