Today's @nytimes feature on the fire at Notre Dame has superb photography & dazzling interactive animations, but nothing is more mesmerizing than these sketches made at the scene by French firefighter Laurent Clerjeau. A landmark piece of visual journalism https://t.co/Sdfjgi8w8Dpic.twitter.com/BOT7wSXeVw
Kim Willsher discusses the importance of the Guédelon project in regards to the rebuilding of Notre Dame Cathedral. The Guédelon project focuses on using tools and methods available in the Middle Ages as an exercise in ‘experimental archaeology’:
The biggest challenge is hand-hewing each beam, rather than using a sawmill.
Stéphane Boudy is one of a small team of carpenters at the medieval site, where he has worked since 1999. Boudy, 51, trained as a baker, then an electrician, until discovering his vocation at Guédelon. He explains how hand-hewing each beam – a single piece from a single tree – respects the “heart” of the green wood that gives it its strength and resistance.
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“This isn’t just nostalgia. If Notre Dame’s roof lasted 800 years, it is because of this. There’s no heart in sawmill wood,” he says.
@guardian https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/20/notre-dame-cathedral-fire-rebuild-medieval-carpenters-guledon?utm_source=pocket_mylist
Kim Willsher discusses the importance of the Guédelon project in regards to the rebuilding of Notre Dame Cathedral. The Guédelon project focuses on using tools and methods available in the Middle Ages as an exercise in ‘experimental archaeology’:
The biggest challenge is hand-hewing each beam, rather than using a sawmill.
I was intrigued by the ‘heart’ of the wood, especially after watching Beau Miles video on saving wood from landfill. I wonder how much heart goes into much in today’s day and age?