Hip Roof Frame

Newmarket NH, 2024.

Another project from my time at Timberhomes Vermont. This sweet timber frame was a collaboration with Andrea Warchaizer of Springpoint Design, who designed the floor plan for this house along with the schematic timber frame design. We added curved cherry tie beams and braces, two small whimsical forked tree posts up high, and a big St Andrews Cross made with curved cherry slabs in the center of the building. This frame is an excellent example of a hip roof, AKA a four-sided pyramid.

Humongous timber framed bent with forked tree posts and curved cherry braces, standing in the sunshine.
Corner of timber framed hip roof with jack rafters and curved cherry braces.
Distance shot of timber frame with hip roof.
Looking up at timber framed hip roof with struts, cherry, and splines.
Newly raised timber frame with curved cherry timbers and hip roof.
Complex intersection of rafters in timber framed hip roof.
Looking up at curved cherry tie beam and braces in newly raised timber frame.
Close up detail of a timber framed hip rafter.
Ripping the backing angles of a timber framed hip rafter with a beam saw.
Ariel Schecter giving a lesson on compound hip and valley roof framing at Timberhomes Vermont.
Layout of joinery on timber framed hip rafter, with large homemade bevel gauge.
Cutting of joinery on timber framed hip rafter, with beam saw in the background.
A happy timber framer after scribing mortise and tenon joinery with forked tree post.
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