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.
Here are a couple of pics of the porch in it's final resting place.
Sounds like an interesting project - worth looking at and considering considering. Perhaps you could send me a rough drawing of the apartment with dimensions?
Someone asked me recently whether he should timber frame or stick frame his new building and my response was that since he asked the question, stick building was probably the answer. I've noticed that people who like timber framing know that they want it and it seems to appeal to them on a deeper than rational level.
The limiting factor in your apartment will probably be to use small enough components to be able to transport them and assemble them relatively easily. (elevator or stairwell size, etc.)
jonathan Pickup
9/30/2009 10:56:58 AM
Love the 3D Models
i really love seeing the 3D model, then seeing your actual wooden building.
KP
9/30/2009 9:28:06 AM
Boy you have talent!
I would really like to commend you on your work. I do have an apartment in the ( New York ) city, is there a chance you could create an actual timber frame insude the apartment so that I can have that "homey" feeling as well? I would like that a lot.
