805, 2013
Wooden shingle roof on our recently built tool shed
We recently finished building our tool shed! As far as I know we’ve built the first roof in modern day Costa Rica that’s entirely made of wood and uses a traditional natural building method with ceder shingles. Here’s what it looks like today:
Not a drop of cement, no metal rods, no plastic… Just local ceder wood (mainly salvaged), 5 small guachipelin posts for the bases, and fairly simple tools. Good geometry, some simple math, and a whole lot of craftsmanship in between. Here’s how it came about: