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Th e
Smith-Waterhouse family on Kauai dates
back 7 generations to a medical missionary who
came to Hawaii in 1842 .
The Stonehouse has been a family
tradition for generations, with the
original having been built and furnished with
materials that came around the Horn at
South America.
In November of 1982, Hurricane Iwa removed the roof from the Stonehouse,
and Baumann Engineering designed a new
roof, using what ultimately proved to be
inadequate Hawaiian codes. When
Hurricane Iniki destroyed the Stonehouse
in 1992, the Smith Waterhouse family
approached Baumann Engineering
again. This time, Baumann
consulted with hurricane wind experts at
Clemson University in Florida and with
tsunami wave experts in Hawaii to
determine the forces he would design the
experimental two-way ductile frame
structure to resist. The below
grade first floor level was actually
designed against the upward motion of
tsunami waves, should the soil erode
from the adverse conditions.
 This
project included the additional feature
that much of the early construction work
was done by architectural and
engineering students from the Universidad Iberoamericana in
Mexico. The students slept in
tents on the beach by night, and
received practical field experience and
school units for their efforts.
The project utilized the developing
welded reinforcement grid that Baumann
had been developing since 1987. A
local building inspector who observed
the construction was quoted in a local
paper: "I never thought I'd see a
hurricane proof home, but...this one
will still be there."
Click here to go to
a thumbnail page of project pictures. There are more than 50 thumbnails on
the page, click on the thumbnail to see a larger version of the photos.
Another option is to download all 50+ photos as a self-extracting zip file, you
DO NOT need Zip software to unzip them. They will automatically unzip in
the Windows/Temp folder when you double-click on the file name after
downloading. The Zip file is about 3mb, so it will only take about 10-12
minutes to download all of these photos on a 56k modem. DSL will download
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