Paul Revere Fragment

Instructor: Billie Faircloth Course: Construction Systems (Fragment) Nima Shariat, Luke Warren, Jack Rodat (Drawing) Isaac Pollan, Diandra Karen Date: Fall 2019

In this class we were tasked with creating a 3’x3’x3’ fragment of a given case study, which in our case was the Paul Revere House. Due to the age of this house and the numerous changes it has gone through throughout its history, there is limited documentation of its construction. The fragment thus required a close in person survey of the building, and research into historic New England building techniques to fill in the gaps in information. We built the fragment using only hand tools and from a tree that we personally felled and hewing into beams. The riven lathes and floorboards come from found woodscraps from a barn of that time period. In this spirit of the spolia that Paul Revere House was built from, the infill is comprised of ‘rubble’ such as failed 3D prints and foam offcuts from around Gund Hall.