I like it. Not practicle up here but should work there. Open side allows for better use of the rest of the parking area.
Looks like Southern Yellow Pine, stained.

Leave a note in their mail box. Say you like the carport and would like to talk to them about it, No need to catch them a home that way.

Not to nitpick.

But a cantilevered structure is supported by just one end (point). The picture illustrated a braced stucture (supported by two points.

It looks like it has corrugated plastic roofing on it .I doubt if you could get enough uplift to do any timber damage before the plastic blew off.

Yep.

I like it a lot. It's designed for local wind and other loads, for sure.

All probably true but for how long?

I mean it looks different and all that but it would never be as strong as a traditional carport.

I like the design - even more if it was structurally sound. Does anyone know it definitely wasn't approved or just educated guesses?

Sherwood

Looks plenty strong.
It's not that heavy.


KT

It's as strong as it needs to be and quite visually pleasing, IMO. Modern architecture and Porsches have always gone together like hand and glove, back to 1948.

That thing looks plenty strong to me... and I wouldn't be concerned about parking under it. It looks strong enough to hold up with up to a foot of snow on it, and that is rare here. Note that it has three vertical supports... it would be easy to miss that third one.

The only way I can see it failing in the 60-80 MPH winds generated in some of the stronger thunderstorms down this way is if it got to rocking a bit on the tensile strength of those three 4 X 4's and snapped a couple of them at a weak point.

If you have ever been to the San Francisco Zoo there is a similar structure at the giraffe viewing deck. It's made of logs and is about ten times bigger. I sat under it for a bit just looking at how it was supported.

Awesome. :)

I like it. I'm sure it's designed with all kinds of safety factor including snow/wind loads, etc. Those members are huge. If I were to design it I'd design it so the roof blew off far before the connections reached the failure point too (the biggest potential problem as I see it is wind loading).

It's sublime. To achieve that, it has to be a little bit scary.

It looks like mid-century modern style. I like it.

I like the look of the the thing. With that much space I would just put in an enclosed garage.

I would call it an accident waiting to happen in a snow zone or a hurricane. Otherwise my guess is that it is fine.

From the interweb:

When the slope is under 12 in. rise per foot of run, a snow and accidental load of 12 lb. per sq. ft. should be used.

I believe that carport has less than 12" rise per foot of run, so: it might be 14' long by 8' wide? 112 sq ft, 12 lbs per sq ft, 1,300 lbs load. I wouldn't want to be under it if that happened.

For wind load (violent hurricane) the load is 40 lb/sq ft, reduced to about 17 lb/sq ft for a 1 in 6 roof. Still more than a snow load...

I still like it.

If you have a violent hurricane, you have much more to worry about than a carport. Take the Porsche and get out of town.

still making it up as you go, eh? :rolleyes:

Anyway, I expect that many here would think nothing of a similar structure with four-post construction, using 4x4's. . . . .which, btw, would fold like a card-house under extreme conditions.


http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4079/...81d68b76_z.jpg

It's a from of cantilever. And the uprights are already bending.

The rain gutter and the material used to cover doesn't look good. I like the structure it just looks like they ran out of steam.

rain gutter? what rain gutter?