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This is how I see it also. I apologize for anything I said that came across as reaming. It wasn't intended that way. Context is so important, and so lacking on message boards. It is more than tone of messages and things like climate. It is also differences like an experienced builder or an...

Post and beam or modified timber frame can be economical. Quite a lot of people have trees or saplings to cut or access to decks being replaced or similar sources of posts or beams. Round wood (as in neither sapwood or heartwood fibers of the tree are cut) is enough stronger that much smaller...

Since you want the aesthetics rather than easier design/build, less/cheaper material, a possible way to improve the blue example might be: Add diagonal ties under and maybe in the roof assembly.... especially from the top of each wall to the top of the adjacent walls. The number/size of...

Of your examples, the first is essentiall a stud wall. The second is really weak. I don't see any good way to strengthen it. The third is also a stud wall.

There are good options other than standard stud walls... Timber frame (two examples, in case you want to allow for chicken math - a LOT of chicken math :lau) Log Cord wood Pole barn, or post and beam (doesn't have the diagonal framing parts of timber framing, instead it relies on burying the...