Roundwood Timber Framing

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Building Naturally Using Local Resources
by Ben Law

This definitive manual marks the birth of a new vernacular for the 21st century.

• Over 400 colour photographs and step-by-step instructions guide you through the building of anything from a garden shed to your own woodland house.
• This practical ‘how to’ book will unquestionably be a benchmark for sustainable building using renewable local resources and evolving traditional skills to create durable, ecological and beautiful buildings.

Roundwood timber framing is a unique form of construction using poles (often coppiced) in the round, rather than in the square, to create structurally stronger, lower cost and aesthetically beautiful buildings.

160 pages, Hardbound

About the Author

Ben Law trains apprentices and runs courses on sustainable woodland management, roundwood timber framing, coppice crafts, and permaculture design.

• He was a founding member of the Forest Stewardship Council.
• He also has worked for Oxfam as a permaculture consultant.
• He is the author of The Woodland Way: A Permaculture Approach to Sustainable Woodland Management and The Woodland House.
• He lives in West Sussex, UK.
• Law's woodland house has been featured on The World's Greenest Homes, a series of the Discovery Channel's Planet Green.

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Roundwood Timber Framing - back cover