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Geo/Scribe Workshop

Sometimes you don't know what you're getting yourself into, and it's a good thing. At last years, (2010), face to face meeting of the Board of Directors of the Timber Framers Guild, I volunteered to host a reprise of a very successful Geometric Design workshop held in New England in 2009. The star of the that show, (and this one), was Laurie Smith, an utterly charming retired ceramics professor who is now writing and teaching on geometrical building design. Since his studies are mostly of timber framed buildings in the U.K., we American timber framers have latched onto his research.

Using the Daisy Wheel, Laurie designed a 20x23 timber frame that would eventually serve as an outdoor classroom at Spring Creek Gardens. We milled the timbers for the frame from Beetle Kill Lodgepole Pine and trees salvaged from the City of Fort Collins Forestry Department.

We were lucky enough to be able to temporarily raise the frame in Old Town Square, Fort Collins. We left it up a couple of days, then drove the pegs back out, moved it to Spring Creek Gardens, and installed it in its permanent location.

Read the testimonial.

A slide show of this workshop and initial raising is available here.

A slide show of us re-raising the frame at Spring Creek is here.

Additional photos and information here: https://sites.google.com/a/tfguild.org/coloradogeo/

Location: Fort Collins, CO
Architect: Laurie Smith
General Contractor: None
timber frame Design: Laurie Smith