The bus shelter nearly complete
The first houses in the new Ferncliff Avenue affordable housing project are just beginning to be built, but a beautiful amenity of the neighborhood—a timber-framed bus shelter—is already in place. Volunteers from Bainbridge Island Community Woodshop assembled the structure in mid November, using wood from trees that had to be cleared from the site to make way for the development.
Coyote Woodworks, a Bainbridge sawmill company, milled the wood. Timber framers at Salisbury Construction cut the joinery.
Volunteers from Bainbridge Island Community Woodshop included Dan Jacobs, Tom Kilbane, Wendy Hufnagle, Don Fox and Jim Roberts. They worked along with two volunteers from Salisbury.
Because of the mortise-and-tenon joinery, the crew slipped the parts together, upside-down.Curved knee braces add an elegant touch to the otherwise simple structure.With the rafters almost all in place, the basic framing is complete.
The site, as construction begins. The concrete wall (behind the hydrant) is the back of the shelter.As the first piedes of framing are moved into place, a concrete wall for the back of the structure is already in place.
The timber frame was bolted to the concrete wall.