Hi Eric, it's a cool design and a great result, it looks like you put that screenshot script to some good use there!

I hope you can post some photos of the construction later, it is always fun to see that stage too.

- Michael

Eric

I guess you and my carpenter son would shudder in disgust at my effort.

But, on the basis that this example is the hard part, I was quite pleased at how MoI worked---as usual!

Brian

Hi Michael
Thanks for your comments. The screenshot script is great.
I will post some pictures of the construction along about June.
cheers,
eric

Hi Brian ..

It works as long as you don't have a snow load. :)

cheers,
eric

Eric

Whats a snow load?

Some of us have never seen snow!

Brian

(More, bigger, stronger purlins and joists as required!--- Array, Array!)

Hi....

I never touch or see real snow before either.... :(

Go to your freezer, scrape some of that fluffy white frosty stuff off from around the cube maker. Same difference! :)

Burr, the Hawaiin Snow Man!

Brian

Hi Michael ..
I will post pictures next year but in the meantime, this was an earlier design study using Rhino and Flamingo.
The final results should look something like this
cheers
eric

Hi Eric, will the building be used as an actual Buddhist temple?

It looks great! It will be a lot of fun to see the construction too.

- Michael

Hi Michael ...
Yes ... it is in the Kootenay mountains of British Columbia, Canada. They bought a big house and some land a few years ago and the original work included renovating the house and adding to it to create a meditation retreat and teaching center. The teacher (Rinpoche Zazep Tulku) hopes to have his 60th birthday celebration on the floor of the new temple next spring (2009) ... with a following big work retreat scheduled to put up the timber frame. I will get pictures of the process.
cheers,
eric