In collaboration with Dr. Lindsay Cook: Professor of Art History and Susan Boynton: Professor of Music, Handshouse Studio brought the Notre-Dame Project to Columbia University to exhibiting our model of La Forêt during a performance of the Gregorian Choir of Paris.
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Notre-Dame Project in the streets of Ann Arbor!
On October 17th, Handshouse Studio raised our Notre-Dame Project full-scale replica truss on Liberty St in Ann Arbor, MI to celebrate! Why raise an 8100lb replica piece an 800 year old timber structure in the middle of the street for a day? Because of the community, connection and curiosity that it inspires.
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A student attaches mortise and tenon joinery on Truss #10, the most complex truss in the structure.
Getting inside Notre-Dame with Norwell High School students
Handshouse hosted a La Forêt Model Project workshop for Norwell High School students at our headquarters in Norwell. Norwell High School organizes to send groups of students to volunteer for non-profits in the local area each yea, and we used their help to experiment with ways of making a learn-by-doing workshop with the La Forêt Model reassembly process.
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Handshouse Studio brought its Notre-Dame Project to the Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia in September and October, 2022. Project representatives return to Athens, GA for another five-day workshop and a February 9 open studio and panel conversation.
The Gift of Repair
The Willson Center for Humanities and Arts and the Lamar Dodd School of Art invited Handshouse Studio: Notre-Dame Project back to Athens,GA to offer a five-day workshop to continue the 1:10 scale white-oak model recreating one of the oldest sections of Notre-Dame de Paris timber roof.
Read MoreNotre-Dame Project in France!
Michael Burrey and Jackson DuBois, both vital participants in the Notre-Dame Project full-scale reconstruction of Choir Truss #6 in Washington, DC in 2021, were invited to work as members of the team of professional French carpenters rebuilding Notre-Dame de Paris’s 315-foot timber spire.
Read MoreThe Notre-Dame Project goes to the Sam Beauford Woodworking Institute!
Handshouse Studio hand-raised their Notre-Dame Project’s 8100-pound white oak replica of Choir Truss #6 and brought a 5-day La Forêt Model Project workshop to the Sam Beaufort Woodworking Institute and at the Great Lakes Woodworking Festival in Adrian, MI.
Read MoreWE RAISED OUR REPLICA FOR THE CHIEF RESTORATION ARCHITECTS FROM FRANCE!
Philippe Villeneuve and Remi Fromont, Chief Architects of the Notre-Dame de Paris reconstruction in Paris greeting Rick Brown Co-Founder of Handshouse Studio in front of the full-scale replica of a Notre-Dame de Paris wooden roof truss reconstructed by Handshouse Studio participants using Fromonts hand-drawings of the cathedral’s medieval timber roof structure.
Read MoreThe Notre-Dame de Paris Truss Project Continues!
The Catholic University of America and the National Building Museum, partners in Handshouse Studio’s Notre-Dame de Paris Truss Project, host restoration architects of Notre-Dame de Paris, who will help hand-raise a 8100-pound full-scale reconstruction of a Notre-Dame roof truss. Events in Washington, DC Monday, Sept 26th!
Read MoreA Beautiful Day of Demonstrations at Millennium Gate Museum
The Notre-Dame de Paris Truss Project exhibition at the Millennium Gate Museum ended with a gorgeous sunny day of demonstrations and presentations in Atlanta, GA. The Full-scale reconstruction of Notre Dame’s choir truss #6 stood on the Western terrace of Millennium Gate enjoying its last moments amongst the Atlanta community.
Read MoreLaunching the trailer of the documentary film in progress!
Filmmakers Rian Brown and Jake Hochendoner follow Handshouse Studios’ group of American timber framers in their efforts to accurately reconstruct a full-scale wooden truss as a gift, in an act of global solidarity, to repair the roof of Notre Dame of Paris cathedral that burned in 2019. A Studio Orsopolis and Divided Line production
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