Iona Land Shelter

Day 10 at the Iona Land site was a beautiful sunny one, and another relaxed day of preparation for the floor structure...

The highlight of the day was probably the testing of the reciprocal frame roof structure. You might remember a post from a couple of weeks ago describing Simon and Alina's work with Steve Wickham of Price & Myers engineers. These are some shots of the pinned balsa wood model they used to test the idea:

Well despite the fact that the principles of reciprocal frames are well understood and careful thought has gone into this one, we were nervous about whether it would work in practice. Here is our first attempt...

 

Iona Land Shelter- Roof structure test from Buzdjow on Vimeo.

In other news, the ropes and props finally came off the poles, leaving us with a proud freestanding woodhenge. A nice moment.

End of day progress shots: