In collaboration with Dr. Lindsay Cook: Professor of Art History and Susan Boynton: Professor of Music, Handshouse Studio brought the Notre-Dame Project to Columbia University to exhibiting our model of La Forêt during a performance of the Gregorian Choir of Paris.
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Notre-Dame Project in the streets of Ann Arbor!
On October 17th, Handshouse Studio raised our Notre-Dame Project full-scale replica truss on Liberty St in Ann Arbor, MI to celebrate! Why raise an 8100lb replica piece an 800 year old timber structure in the middle of the street for a day? Because of the community, connection and curiosity that it inspires.
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A student attaches mortise and tenon joinery on Truss #10, the most complex truss in the structure.
Getting inside Notre-Dame with Norwell High School students
Handshouse hosted a La Forêt Model Project workshop for Norwell High School students at our headquarters in Norwell. Norwell High School organizes to send groups of students to volunteer for non-profits in the local area each yea, and we used their help to experiment with ways of making a learn-by-doing workshop with the La Forêt Model reassembly process.
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Handshouse Studio brought its Notre-Dame Project to the Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia in September and October, 2022. Project representatives return to Athens, GA for another five-day workshop and a February 9 open studio and panel conversation.
The Gift of Repair
The Willson Center for Humanities and Arts and the Lamar Dodd School of Art invited Handshouse Studio: Notre-Dame Project back to Athens,GA to offer a five-day workshop to continue the 1:10 scale white-oak model recreating one of the oldest sections of Notre-Dame de Paris timber roof.
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Philippe Villeneuve and Remi Fromont, Chief Architects of the Notre-Dame de Paris reconstruction in Paris greeting Rick Brown Co-Founder of Handshouse Studio in front of the full-scale replica of a Notre-Dame de Paris wooden roof truss reconstructed by Handshouse Studio participants using Fromonts hand-drawings of the cathedral’s medieval timber roof structure.
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