Intervention: Detailing

To keep the truss boxes in place, I had to attach each of them to one another. I looked at the New Monte Rosa Hut in Switzerland, which is also completely structured from timber. It was the jointing between the floor and wall that would be a suitable means to use for my own design. They were joined by metal plates that fitted together. I took this idea and developed it to keep the boxes attached to each other. This is shown in the diagram to the right. The plates keep the structure ridged and stop the boxes being miss aligned.

I was surprised by how much I actually enjoyed looking at how the structure of the New Monte Rosa Hut fitted together. Looking at new ways that I had never seen before was really interesting.