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Research and present construction methods used by different cultures and relate to your sleep out.


Types of Fale's in Samoa.

• Fale Tele (big house)
• Faleo'o (small house)
• Tunoa (cook house)

                                                  The faleo'o, similar to the sleep-out.

Like the Sleep-out the faleo'o wasn't the flashes house in Samoa and was always located in the back of the main house, like most sleep out in New Zealand. Now days, the term Faleo'o is mostly refer to as any small house in Samoa.

A Faleo'o may sometimes be the same in size with a Sleep-out but in many cases, a faleo'o is built in a diffrent ways from a sleep-out. For example diffrent types of timber used, shape and the list goes on. Even thoe the faleo'o and the sleep-out is built in difrent ways, they are used in a similar ways. They can often be a extra sleeping space.

Timber:

              Most of the timber is grown in forests on family land. The timber was cut in the forest and carried to the building site in the village. The heavy work involved the builder's assistants, members of the family and help from the village community.
The main posts were from the Bread Tree (ulu) and if this wood wasn't available ifi lele or pou muli. The long principal rafters had to be flexible and coconut wood (niu) was always selected. The breadfruit tree was also used for other parts of the main framework.

In general, the timbers most frequently used in the construction of Samoan houses are:-
Posts (poutu & poulalo): ifi lele, pou muli, asi, ulu, talia, launini'u, aloalovao.
Fau: ulu, fau, niu, "uagani"
Aso and paeso: niuvao, ulu, matomo, olomea.
The auau and talitali use ulu and the so'a' used both ulu and niu.

Flooring:

           

               The natural foundations of a fale site are coral, sand, lava with sometimes a few inches of earth in some localities. Drainage is therefore good. The top layers of the flooring are smooth pebbles and stones. When occupied, the house floors are usually covered or partially covered with native mats.

In modern times, concrete and cement is used for flooring.

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10/05/2011

8.45am I arrive to school exspecting to be in the computer room, but to find our class out allready working on our sleep out.

We start the day of working on cutting and fixing our Out-rigs. We had allready cut out six Out-rigs from the day befor, so it was just a matter of nailing them down and cutting out the last one. But we had a major problem with four of our Out-rigs. All four for the other side were cut to short at 545m, where they were supose to be cut at 590m. This was a major set-back because we had allready nailed three of the four Out-rigs down.

To fix the problem, we had to cut out the beamers sitting on top of our rafters. to do this we needed to cut the beamer from the middle point of the first rafter that was nailed onto. We could not take out our Out-rigs with-out doing this! So after cutting through our bottom three beamers, we then hammered it down.

With a whole days work gone wrong, we decided that we fix the problem and try and catch up to our other class mates working on the other sleep out. Given that we just had a new tutor name Kevin, we were on our own, as he was just getting used to things.

With the day coming to an end, we quickly fixed up our Out-rigs witch we had to take down, and naild one side down and with no time do the other side we were left to nail them in the next day.