A transparent aluminum column and a load bearing door jamb (yes- that is a beam in the picture).
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Edited 10/23/2009 12:35 pm ET by danski0224
A transparent aluminum column and a load bearing door jamb (yes- that is a beam in the picture).
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Wasn't Transparent aluminium invented by Scotty in one of the Star Trek movies?
Yup. Voyage Home, I think.
That Transparent Aluminum looks like a real neat product. Looks like it could solve all manner of gravity related engineering problems.
Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end.
Yeah, but you bump into it when you turn as you come off the stairs. I hope it's surrounded by transparent foam rubber.
As I stood before the gates I realized that I never want to be as certain about anything as were the people who built this place. --Rabbi Sheila Peltz, on her visit to Auschwitz
Actually, neither is NECESSARILY a problem (though both are ugly).
The corner with the "missing" post is supported by a cantilevered beam, a legitimate technique. (Valid to question whether the beam is adequate in size, of course, but one can't say either way from the picture.)
In the second picture it would appear that the door was installed after the beam was in place, and is not in any way supporting the beam (or intended to).
Missing column: Check out the flooring that is pushed upwards.
If the door was installed afterwards, then what is the bearing point for the beam? The door goes outside- there is nothing but air on the other side.
The flooring is pushed upward because the builder didn't account for the fact that wood shrinks more in width than in length, so the knee brace didn't shrink as the joist/beam did.Can't tell from the picture what's on the other side. If the beam were supported by the door, though (and the beam itself were supporting anything), the door would not operate.
As I stood before the gates I realized that I never want to be as certain about anything as were the people who built this place. --Rabbi Sheila Peltz, on her visit to Auschwitz
Aagree, neither looks like a structural problem just aesthetically?
Unless the red board is not a cantilever<G>