Moretown VT, 2022

This 28’x36’ barn is from my time at Timberhomes Vermont, and is special for a few reasons - firstly because I designed it for my friend and ceramics teacher! This barn is also special because it contains a very special stereotomy feature in the roof framing of the loft. Note the distinguished pairs of X-braces that travel between the tie beams and the purlins. All of this joinery was developed without the use of numeric math, using only a hand-drawing technique called stereotomy - which you can read more about here.

Stereotomy Barn

Looking through the loft of a barn with stereotomy feature, with doors cracked open and light pouring in.
Fresh timber framed monitor barn with lean-to, in Vermont winter.
Interior of ground story with concrete slab in a timber framed barn.
Timber framed barn in Vermont winter with sliding doors open.
Lean-to of timber framed barn with entry door.
Side view of timber framed barn in Vermont winter.
Detail of complex joinery in St. Andrews cross stereotomy feature in timber framed barn.
Timber framed St Andrews crosses in a barn roof, made with stereotomy, against blue sky.
Looking up at St Andrews crosses in timber framed barn roof, against blue sky.
Detail view of complex joinery in timber framed St Andrews crosses, made with stereotomy.
Timber framed loft with stereotomy feature, with roof boards, mid construction in Vermont winter.
Ariel Schecter, posing underneath timber framed St Andrews crosses made with stereotomy.
Detail of irregular triangle shaped housings in timber for a stereotomy feature in a timber frame.
Cutting a very sharp angle with a handsaw into a timber, for a stereotomy feature in a barn.
Using a shoulder plane to finish the rough cuts.
Pointy, barbed timber frame joinery for stereotomy feature in barn.
Sharply angled timber frame joinery for stereotomy feature in barn, after cutting.

Video tour of the Moretown Barn with stereotomy feature.

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