Old-School Construction Trick: Using Rocks to Hold Roofing in Place

An old-school construction trick used in Japan, the Swiss Alps, and probably other places, is to hold roofing down using heavy rocks. UK-based design/research/building firm Material Cultures used this technique, as well as timber framing, in building this Rock Hut for client Grizedale Arts: "The timber frame was built using green larch: a locally sourced, fast growing softwood milled at Graythwaite Estate sawmill, pegged together with oak dowels hewn from locally forested...