Woodworking
During my years in the French mountains, I learned traditional carpentry and woodcarving, skills that grew from one project to the next. I’m a big fan of old, traditional craftsmanship, and I see it as an honour to learn and preserve the knowledge of the old craftsmen: to keep it alive, and to teach and train others in crafts that are almost lost.
Planning & Preparation
Teaching how to come up with, plan and prepare wooden constructions and sculptures: from the first rough ideas and sketches to technical drawings and plans.
Realisation
We have all the tools and equipment needed to make real whatever we have in mind, and the space and time to make it happen, as long as your discipline holds up ;)
Traditional Craft
Learning the old techniques: joints without a single nail or screw, carving, and sharpening and caring for your tools, so the knowledge of the old craftsmen stays alive.
Almost all of these constructions were built as part of social projects, in which young people took part and grew their knowledge and skills in craftsmanship.
01PfeilhausTraditional wooden construction in the French Pyrenees. The structure is built without nails or screws… only traditional wooden joinery, which holds everything nicely together.
02TreehouseA fun project in northern Spain. The goal was to build a treehouse on two levels. The construction is designed so that it doesn’t harm or damage the trees.
03Shingle roofSouth of France, Pyrenees. Probably the craziest project I’ve done so far: covering a roof with handmade oak shingles and adding sculpted beams to it.
04CanopyA nice canopy for an already existing cabin near Auch in the south of France. A project realised during a journey on horseback, on which we stopped at places along the way to build cool stuff.
05SculpturesVarious wooden sculptures and experiments.
06MiscellaneousSome other smaller wooden construction projects.