Building a Landmark
Celebrating 25 years of business, Big Timberworks offers diversity in sustainable building practices
Built with recycled redwood siding, metal, board formed concrete and recycled styrene block with stucco, this home in the Bridger mountain range
was meant to look as if it had always been there, a collection of several ranch buildings grown together. Photo By:
JK LawrenceWhat other builders consider
scrap, Big Timberworks has transformed into a custom furniture collection. For this room divider pressed tin was salvaged from a 1940’s granary and combined with
reclaimed cedar; the table features recycled plow disks; and the bench incorporates industrial gravel screen with reclaimed fir Photo By:
Karl NewmannThis modern addition was attached
to an existing log cabin located up Trail Creek, designed for two chefs to have room to maneuver and have a gorgeous view through the curved wall Photo By:
JK LawrenceThis home
was designed to compliment, rather than dominate, the landscape. It is built from stone from western Montana logs reclaimed from Great Salt Lake railroad trestle.
Salvaged metal roof, recycled from an old chicken farm, board-formed concrete recycled pickle-tank fir siding. Photo courtesy of Big Timberworks
One of the homeowners loved the clean sleek lines associated with metal and
modern design, and the other home owner was more interested in the warmth
that wood and organic shapes can lend. Photo By:
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All BT homes and timber frame packages utilize sustainable, energy efficient materials. The uniqueness of each home comes from an imaginative approach to design that encompasses an appreciation for the beauty of the materials. As one of the largest end users of salvaged wood and metal in the country, Adams jokes that he is a master at “building with firewood,” meaning that his craftsman utilize every kind of materials — the old, the crooked, the irregular and limited.
At the sprawling BT compound scraps of metal are stacked out behind the metal shop — sculptural plow disks, coils of cable from an old chair lift at Bridger Bowl, spiraled augers and rusty antique wheels. Any of these could be incorporated to become design elements in a BT project; in the past, cable has been used for hand railing and recycled gravel screens are recycled as industrially-influenced sconces.
In the expansive timber shop a team puts the finishing touches on a custom-designed dining room table, made from walnut and edged in copper. In a larger area, saw horses bear the weight of massive timbers, burled and twisted posts, beams, the bark partially peeled. Worktables line a far wall and countless hooks hang with every hand tool imaginable for woodworking. BT is renown for the highest quality craftsmanship in timber frame installations and offer timber trusses as well as classic, modern and free form style timberframe packages.
  
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