The wavy cabin, final stage

Here we are, it'll go in Chichester, with nice people, for a woodland camping (website). I've got a very naïve and intense satisfaction with that project. It feels like I can express something building that and it looks like it is relatively comprehensible. Thanks Tom, Sarah, Ivan.

There's always something beautiful about those battons. All these beams, posts, braces and pegs are here for these small and delicate bits of wood.

The timber-frame is about to achieve it's main purpose, shedding that bloody water away from us and our stuff. The space is gently trapped and that sudden strict geometry contrasts and highlights the roughness of the frame.

The kicks, the first "batton" had to be entirely carved  to fit the waves of the rafters.

Lots more shingles to split now, the wood turtle will have its shell finished next month.

Not finished this month. Yeah, one has been silly enough to estimate 8 square meters of shingles. The roof is, in fact 12sqm. Considerably more. It is what it is, it'll only happen next month.

There are nice colours in the last batch of sweet chestnut. I might make a little post on different techniques to split shingles.

The ridge has been a bit of a questionning. It's relatively easy but the non-straightness makes it fiddely. It'll only be more of a beauty :)