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Silver Park Timber Frame Small Shelter Project
Missoula, Montana
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| Timber Framers Guild volunteers erect Bonin timber frame shelter |
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October 2008: Timber
Framers from the United States and Canada traveled to the Silver Park
Shelter site, Missoula, Montana, to attend a week-long Timber Framers
Guild workshop to cut and erect Green Architect Jeremy Bonin’s wining
design entry.
Workshop
space was limited to 20 attendees, and the Guild was thrilled to have
additional 29 excited timber framers on the waiting list.
Jeremy’s
shelter, which was sponsored by the Missoula Rotary Club, was erected
amid a flurry of activities involving five instructors and over 30
volunteers. The other two winning designs were constructed off site and will be brought to the site for placement.
The 14 ½ acre Silver Park Project is slated to be finished in 2009. Thanks to Jennifer Anthony for the pictures of the progress. Visit the Timber Framers Guild website for other construction photos.
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| Jeremy Bonin's winning design |
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December 2007: The Timber Framers Guild has announced Jeremy Bonin,
AIA NCARB LEED AP as one of three winners of its Silver Park Design
Competition. The goal of the competition was to create three small log
and/or timber shelters with benches in Silver Park, Missoula, Montana.
Silver Park, formerly a mill site and originally owned by Morris Silver
in the 1930s and then by the F. Morris & Helen Silver Foundation,
will be a 15-acre public space owned by the city of Missoula. Situated
along the river across from downtown Missoula, it connects to and
extends Missoula's river trail system. The park's theme celebrates the
heritage of timber in Western Montana.
Designs
were judged anonymously on the overall aesthetic design, creative use
of materials, originality and how well they met specific design
parameters for the project. The winning structures will be built at
the International Log Builders Association workshop and at the Timber
Framers Guild Conference.
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Jury's comments:
"I love the expression of this joyous and seemingly free-form design that gets great visual 'liftoff'."
"The
fluidness of this design echoes the mountains of Montana. This design
gives the builder a chance to work on compound connections, skewed
angles and interesting roof applications."
Click on any of the photos below for a larger image.
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