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The east west and south sides are left open but
with canvas roll-down panels, which can be lowered to make the
space cosy or raised to enjoy the beautiful woodland setting. The
woodland classroom is one of the many roundwood buildings,
including
Ben's
home in Prickly Nut Woods, that feature in his book 'Roundwood
Timber Framing' (left).
Ben's aim is to move away from building techniques
that rely on importing whatever materials are needed to create a
building that is conceived out of context from the natural
environment and move towards designing buildings that use the
resources around the building. He hopes future architects would
look at the resources near the site and ask, "What can we build
out of that?".
The classroom took about three months to build passing Ben's
skills on to a number of apprentices involved in the project.
Several of them had no previous construction skills at all. |
