From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37175721#37188180 :

> FWIU Round homes fare best in windstorms: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37175721#37188180

From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37793288 :

> "Zero energy ready homes are coming" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35060298

> "Ask HN: Why don't datacenters have passive rooflines like Net Zero homes?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37579505

So IMHO, round, with a roofline that causes passive heat exchange and ventilation, and Net Zero, with a heated slab, low VOCs, and a metal roof for rainwater collection and irrigation.

A stick frame house is built with standard dimensional lumber, with the walls nailed on the ground and raised.

A timber frame house is built with posts and beams made out of larger lumber.

Roof trusses are joined with metal (steel,) bracket plates typically as flatbed-delivered stacks prefabricated in a climate-conditioned warehouse.

Triangles, Arches, Circles and Spheres distribute load in structures.

Only certain tilings resist shearing.

Walls fall over if unsupported on their third axis.

Water fills behind nonporous (block) walls.

A polygon mesh is deformable, but a idk triangularly-filled mesh is not.

Triangles' side length to angle ratios only have one solution: triangles can't shear without the side or joined angle breaking (and so roof trusses are typically triangular and subtended into smaller triangles).

To shear a rectangle, you push and pull on it (and its vertices remain connected).

Shearing is usually described as a linear transformation (but which point is the origin, and so a linear transformation matrix about an origin is actually insufficient, and rigid body splined kinematics also omits GR).

The roof and stairs of a house are typically the strongest parts of a stick frame structure.

A square house twists underneath of a (relatively more static) triangular roof in high winds (with high shearing force due to wind).

Stick frame studs are '16" on center'

Doorways and windows have framed headers with crple studs that may be spaced less than 16" apart.

Add 2x8+ plated headers to insulate and structurally secure exterior doors and windows.

In the United States, a (2024) 2x4 is 1.5x3.5", and a 2x6 is 1.5x5.5".

With 2x6s or 2x8s, there is more room for higher R-value insulation.

Framing (construction)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Framing_(construction)

I have saved woodworking videos in a playlist for later review with materials from my neighbor's house first: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLt_DvKGJ_QLau_vXQQnJKgTXQ...

Framing and (Hurricane proof) building code videos are accidentally interspersed, per traditional woodworking video procedure.

Also doing software And carpentry: "The Newbie Woodworker" on Kickback table saw Safety: https://youtu.be/ZUZ8hRm7a8g?si=tDYX92TUQKPvNQip

Joinery software, Japanese joinery:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36191589

Many older house framing videos show old methods that are not to code. For example, modern code requires that footers be bolted to the _____.

/? home framing terminology:
https://www.google.com/search?q=home+framing+terminology

To be a building inspector, you train on the building code and then you label code violations.

Smart builders and contractors can hire and train their own preemptive inspectors to inspect it before you have it inspected by a 3rd party home inspector; for resale; for someone else with an infant to live in.

/? Building a house: https://www.youtube.com/results?sp=mAEA&search_query=Framing...