Mess Building – Progress
Great to see this finally taking shape – it is the welfare facility for the tree team at Westonbirt, and complements the bigger Machinery Store that we’ve designed and is currently under construction next door to it. All the timber has been grown on site and is being used in its unseasoned and untreated state, but we’ve had to use a little steel to resist the twist of the complex double curved hyperbolic paraboloid roof.
Westonbirt TMC – Frame progress
Progress at Westonbirt where the Tree Management Centre is on site, which we have designed with Buro Happold. This is the first truss being prepared for lift.
Westonbirt. Carpenter’s Tools
Carpenter’s tools at Westonbirt, on the site of the Tree Management Centre
Westonbirt Tree Management Centre Progress
Progress on the new Tree Management Centre at Westonbirt Arboretum – the 20m trusses from green Corsican Pine grown on site are well underway. The bottom chords use the natural curvature of the tree, and the members were all hewn by hand on site by volunteers. The scale of the members is really only apparent when compared with the size of a person – and then their sheer scale becomes apparent. Charley Brentnall is leading the build, and a 130 ton crane will be required for the lift.