Frames of Timber

When designing my timber frame roof, in trying to create a roof that would challenge the notion of traditional timber framing as well as the challenging the notion of 'up and down', I decided to also challenge the the concept of what a roof is. I began with one of the definitions of the word roof that I found in a dictionary: the highest point or limit; the summit. I took this as inspiration, and created four 'caps' for each of the four columns, rather than creating a traditional roof that would span the four columns. Each cap is constructed to hold three frames that frame particular views in the plaza, and in the sky, as the overall concept of this project for me, was to create something that would enhance the experience of this area in Burchard Plaza, in this case being something that would encourage viewers to look and hopefully observe surroundings that they have been missing. A few photographs of my model are pictured here, as well as my competition board done in pen.