While we really prefer to work close to home with our construction projects, being a nationally recognized architecture firm does tend to draw us out our immediate vicinity every once in a while. We go where the work is. And we’ve been thrilled to work with Maharishi University of Management in constructing the roundwood collonade to line the central corridor of their new classroom building on campus. The building will be the home of their new Sustainable Living degree program and incorporates many natural building techniques as well as their classic Vedic Design.
One of the ways we compromise is by preparing and assembling our whole tree framework right here at our home base and then organizing an efficient Ship it, Build it, Come on Home operation to get it to its permanent location. After arduous weeks of harvesting, peeling and preparing these pieces they are finally ready to ship out! Because the Maharishi timber pieces were SO LARGE we actually borrowed a little workshop space from a neighboring business – Chaseburg Manufacturing located in scenic Coon Valley. Here are some of the beams, all prepped and ready to ship.
Once everything was securely strapped in place we were ready to caravan on down to Fairfield Iowa for our big timber raising event!