Hobbit house

[DavidWoodman]

I’m planning to build an outdoor hut styled as a Hobbit House, with curved roof (shingles or shakes?) & roof facings also curved. The overall roof will be round, or a 16 faced cone made on top of wood trusses. The overall structure is based on four tree trunks I’ve already set into the ground, they are about 45-60cm in diameter and form a square about 2.5 x 2.5m.
I’m trying to keep the wood joints simple also to make the main supporting frame from large boards that can chainsaw myself from other tree trunks I have. The wood is alll pine.
Any suggestions on best way to form the overall structure of this round roof would be appreciated, especially the frame to be built on top of the four trunks, also the top joint of the roof where all the trusses will have to meet up?

 

[Tris]

Look up Tony Wrench's roundhouse for details of a reciprocal frame roof. Think you might need 4 more uprights to support the ring beam but it should give you some idea

 

[Orraloon]

Some years ago I did the Hobbiton movie set tour of the hobbit village in New Zealand. Mr Jackson wanted everything to be as authentic as possible. Even down to real flowers and veg in the gardens. I was very impressed with some of the woodwork. The pub was a real eye opener for any woodworker.

Must have been some really good craftspeople. All real stone and wood. Nothing plastic that I could see.
Anyhow sounds like a nice project.
Regards
John

 

[DavidWoodman]

Look up Tony Wrench's roundhouse for details of a reciprocal frame roof. Think you might need 4 more uprights to support the ring beam but it should give you some idea

Thanks for this pointer - Tony’s house is impressive! A lot larger than my meagre plans, which are more for a playhouse for grandchildren in the garden, but makes me think!

 

[DavidWoodman]

Some years ago I did the Hobbiton movie set tour of the hobbit village in New Zealand. Mr Jackson wanted everything to be as authentic as possible. Even down to real flowers and veg in the gardens. I was very impressed with some of the woodwork. The pub was a real eye opener for any woodworker.
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Must have been some really good craftspeople. All real stone and wood. Nothing plastic that I could see.
Anyhow sounds like a nice project.
Regards
John

Very impressive!! A hobbit pub….nice!!

 

[Jester129]

But they only sell 'short' measures!

 

[Morag Jones]

Just a thought, but once the anklenippers tire of the building, you could repurpose as a maker space if that is planned in at this stage? That would be fun …