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Screen Porch

This week I've designed and built a small timber framed screen porch which will attach to a barn that I built a few years ago. The design took a few hours and the off-site cutting and fitting has taken a few days. Again I'll mention that I believe that designing in a digital modelling environment is far preferable to designing something in a person's brain and then representing it with lines and text. In designing in a 3D modelling environment, a design is compiled from 3D digital objects, much as a building is a collection of 3D objects. The resulting views are actual views of an actual digital building, as opposed to lines and symbols designed to give an impression of a building that only exists in someone's imagination. Below you'll see drawings, frame made up at home, and finally porch installed on site.