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Timberframe Design-Build Details

The following series of photographs show the design development through 3D modeling of the structure, utilization of site grown materials, and raising the post and beam structural basis at the center of the house.

3D MODELING ENABLED DETAILED ROOF, STRUCTURE, AND PLOT PLANNING

Rendered Plot plan for Hybrid Timberframe House

Modeling all components 3D enabled precise accuracy in construction.

3D Model plan of Timberframe post and beam construction.
3D Room analysis of Timberframe house.
Rafter and Roof Junction Detail for Post and Beam Great Room
Full Roof and Rafter view of Timberframe House
Gable study of hybrid timberframe house.
Beam layout for roof line placement
Steel blade anchors for sold fir posts.

MILLING LUMBER FROM TREES ON SITE

Paul Garrity Sawyer reducing home grown pine to lumber on site.

20,000 BOARD FEET OF 100 YR. OLD HEART PINE

Yard Cut Pine Trees converted to heart pine air drying on stickers for use in house.
Passive solar kiln designed and build specially for hybrid timberframe project.

KILN • BUILT ON SITE TO DRY LUMBER TO 12%

Solar panels showing air circulating through kiln, sun drying heart pine to proper moisture content.

YARD GROWN PINE • TREES TO LUMBER TO FLOOR

Timber cut and dried from yard being placed as a heart pine floor in Timber Frame Great Room.

PINE IN CEILING • GROWING IN YARD ONLY A YEAR AGO

Solid Heart Pine Ceiling using wood grown right outside in the yard.

STAINED AND FINISHED TO LUSTROUS GOLDEN BROWN

Stained, Quarter Sawn Heart Pine Floor in Great Room

POST & BEAM FRAMING BETWEEN OLD AND NEW

Post and Beam "Raising" of timberframe.

RAFTERS OVER BEAMS

Fitting Rafters to Beams over Great Room

HYBRID DESIGN • 16 COLUMNS • RAFTERS ON TIMBER FRAME

Photo of Living Trees converted to Structural Building Elements
Detail of Rafters custom fit to beams

EACH OAK PIN TAKES 9,000 POUNDS OF TENSILE STRESS

Solid Fir Beams with 1" Oak pins securing tenons and splines.

TAKIN' CARE'A BUSINESS

Taking Care of Business