Homestead · between the house and the greenhouse
The walkway
The enclosed walkway from the great room to the greenhouse's dining gallery, over the tunnel between them, and behind the outdoor kitchen a court between the wing and the greenhouse: the cook's raised beds, the house's woodshed and the back path to the garden.
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The walkway runs level with the great room at +2'-0" right through, over the greenhouse tunnel's lid, and three steps inside the gallery's west door take it down to grade. Solid on the south, where the outdoor kitchen's cook wall and oven stand against it; glazed on the north over a low wall, with a door onto the court. The court holds four oak raised beds a few steps from the kitchen, and the house's woodshed, about 4 cords for the masonry heater and the oven, open to the south sun.
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The outdoor kitchen's ridge stands above the walkway's, so the kitchen's roof is carried north over the walkway's south slope to its ridge, with a valley on each side and a small gable on the ridge, a batten seam where the two frames meet so each can move. The walkway's posts stand on the tunnel's walls; nothing bears on the wing or the gallery.
How it works
- A door at each end. The greenhouse's air is humid and never enters the house: the gallery's door closes it off. The walkway is heated from the house's floor loop, as a room.
- The wood comes in through it: from the woodshed across the court, through the north door and the walkway, to the heater in the great room.
- The beds are shaded by the walkway and the wing in the afternoon, which suits herbs and greens.
The frame, Homestead Walkway and Woodshed: 148 timbers, 3,108 board feet of oak, bur oak and pine, and 50 oak pegs, with the woodshed.