Structura Erectus

In a way its crazy to think that 48 hours ago, all we had were a few prefabricated components, 12 rough holes in the ground, and a rocky platform on sleepers in the middle of a wet mound of earth. Well, we still have all of those things, but in the last two days, structure has sprung from the ground. One rickety column became two, then four, and by the start of play today we had 12 columns supported by a lot of temporary timber protruding from the ground.

Today’s exercise was one of precision, as we adjusted all of the irregular sycamore and oak columns to line through with each other, and began to attach what will be the composite beams along their lengths. The pictures below show many, many timbers which will be eventually
removed, but the structure itself is really starting to take shape.

One side of irregular timber columns, picture taken from a height.

Beam along the long sides are attached, marking out where the roofline will eventually fall.

Temporary beams are everywhere, but they form a vital purpose.

The structure is beginning to make its presense, with the surrounding trees beautifully intruding through the walls and roof.

As night began to fall, we had begun to lay the concrete pinned foundations, covered here with wet hessian to aid the concrete in gaining strength.