Arboretum Education Center

Uncarved Block was offered the opportunity to be part of one of the most unique public timber frame buildings in the country.  The Mountain Top Arboretum (hyperlink:  https://www.mtarboretum.org/) in the Catskill Mountains of NY was looking to build a space to host educational workshops.  They hired perhaps the best timber frame architect in the country, Jack Sobon.  The project had strict requirements for specifications, budget, and schedule, and Uncarved Block was hired.  We walked the land of the Mountain Top Arboretum to identify all 21 species of trees present on the property, and designed the timber frame to incorporate every tree species growing there!  The hundreds of wild timbers were custom-sawn, and then scribed for a seamless flow of timbers and trees in the frame.  What we built was extraordinarily unique, and a perfect space to bring the trees of the Arboretum into their new building.