The roof design for this building was inspired by two salvaged 24 feet old growth beams, serendipitously found at a second hand building material store in the Summer of 2018. In February 2019, a dinner conversation with two old architecture friends convinced us to try the unthinkable: to divert from traditional carpentry, and place the ridge beam at a diagonal, rather than what is normally placed perpendicular to the top plate. As we departed from the typical gable and valley roof framing carpentry on this self-imposed adventure, our simple design gesture procured an incredible number of construction challenges and discoveries. Producing compound angles on a piece of wood essentially means that a piece of wood has two sides, side A and side B, which will have to be cut at different angles and at different measurements. This added complication had us diagram, test and prototype all winter 2019.