Salem Rotary Centennial Pavilion
Salem, Oregon
April 18-30, 2005
Join us in beautiful Salem, Oregon, for a Rendezvous to build a complicated and large free-span pavilion roof.
Do you need to strengthen the compound roof elements of your professional timber framing portfolio?
The Guild is putting on an event in April that will help. We are going to lay out, cut and assemble a large free-span roof as guests of the Rotary Club in Salem. This will be a highly visible public structure right downtown on the newly reclaimed waterfront.
Barbara Czoch and Norman Guiver are working to enlist timber framers from the UK, which means the project should be a superior international effort. At 42' from pier to pier, it will be an impressive structure, for sure.
Scope of Work
This Rotary Pavilion, the tangible result of years of lobbying by Rotarian Mark Wulf, is a large and complex structure with almost entirely compound joinery. Mark has proven adept at corralling local support for this event, as evidenced by the number of names on the sign at the site.
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This structure depends upon four masonry columns to resolve outward forces, making it possible to create an airy and open roof system without major tie beams from corner to corner. This evokes the earliest uses of heavy timber construction in the great cathedrals of Europe, with their masonry walls supporting and resolving the thrust of lofty roof systems.
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The shop drawings were done by John Mumaw, after an original model created by Curtis Milton. Engineering is by Jennifer Anthony with generous consultation from Grigg Mullen and Ed Levin. To view the drawings, visit the Youngman Locke Engineers Website.
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We will work in Salem's Riverfront Park on the banks of the Willamette River. There will be multiple work sites and techniques for you to engage in: under the big bridge will be the scribing team; under the on ramp will be square rule timber framing; and out on the concrete will be a complex and large-scale multi-crane raising.
If you cannot commit for a week, please consider coming along for the raising.
About Salem
The capital of Oregon, Salem is a picturesque city in the heart of the fertile Willamette Valley, nestled between the Cascade Mountains and the Lower Coast Range. The Native American name for the area was Chemeketa, which means “meeting or resting place,” an appropriate term for the kind of community event we have planned. The area is famous for wines, and home to colorful gardens blooming with acres of tulips, daffodils, peonies and iris.
Recent Photos In & Around Salem
Our thanks to Jon Hazen, Editor of salemoregon.com
Roll over any small photo for a larger view
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Captions:
- There are many local companies participating in this project by the Salem Rotary Club. The Timber Framers Guild is prominently listed and a key element of the project.
- The footings and columns that will support the timber framing stand ready. A winterized flowering cherry tree is in the foreground. This view faces west. Photo 2/13/05.
- Salem Riverfront Park is seen on the right below the bridges in this 1999 photo. The Willamette Queen riverboat is midstream at the bottom of the photo.
- The west lawn of the Oregon Capitol is reflected in Waite Fountain.
- The Oregon Department of Forestry headquarters sited on Mill Creek is handcrafted as part of the WPA in the 1930's.
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Left to right:
Breaking ground are two City Councilors Dan Clem and Jim Randall; Rotary President Carolyn Gorsuch; Salem Mayor and Rotarian Janet Taylor; General contractor and Rotarian Don Lulay; and Mark Wulf. Photo credit: Kris Gorsuch.
Call 603-835-2077 or write Joel McCarty if you have questions.
Travel & Accommodations
Visit the Salem, Oregon, Visitor Center Website at salemvisitorcenter.com for lots of photos and information.
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Categories of Participation:
Leadership Role: Submit a résumé or recommendation to Projects@tfguild.org to be considered for a leadership role in this project. Roster will be selected by the end of January 2005. Event leaders are independent contractors, not Guild employees. Modest compensation is available, and you will be fed and housed. (Email Joel@tfguild.org for a sample event leader agreement.)
Professional Participant. If you are a practicing timber framer of sufficient skill and motivation to accomplish quality work with a minimum of supervision, this project is partly designed to add skills to your portfolio, to make a you a better timber framer, and therefore to make you more valuable to your employer. Submit a résumé or recommendation to Projects@tfguild.org to be considered. You will be fed and housed. You must register even though there is no fee, and submit a résumé to participate. (If you just turn up, even though we need you, you will dine on potatoes only, and have to sleep with the tools.)
Rookies: We charge a small tuition for rookies to offset the costs of providing you with a timber framer who is experienced at this kind of event.
Week 1: Tuition for rookies attending from April 18-24, 2005. $150
Week 2: Tuition for rookies attending from April 25-May 1, 2005. $150
Complete Participant: Your time will be well rewarded, you will take home skills that will be essential to your own projects, and perhaps more importantly, you'll be an integral part of a community event much larger than our individual goals and accomplishments. $250 April 18-May 1, 2005
Student and Senior Registration: If you are over 65, and/or a full time college student during the academic year, your tuition is free, regardless of your experience level. You will need to demonstrate your student status, and you must register in order to participate. You will be provided with plenty of challenges during the project.
Cancellation Policy: 100% refund before March 1, 50% refund before April 1, 0% refund thereafter.
In the old model of trading labor for learning, all participants will be modestly housed and fed, and well looked after by the Rotary members.
All participants will be required to sign the liability and photo waivers, and to complete the skill and tools inventory. Please make sure that your health insurance is up to date, and that you have rugged clothes and boots, ear, eye, and head protection. A modest tool list and maps will be sent to all registrants.
In any category of participation, preference will be given to those able to commit to both weeks.
Am I a Pro or a Rookie?
The Guild prides itself on being able to find meaningful work for all participants. However, this second week of this event is a Rendezvous, not a Workshop. That means very little instruction will be provided. Those of you paying the Rookie tuition, and those registering as full-time students, are doing so to ensure that you will have enough supervision and leadership to make this a safe and rewarding experience.
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