Assassin’s Creed Unity’s version of Notre-Dame was hailed as being incredibly accurate so accurate that people expected it to help in the restoration of the real Notre-Dame after the devastating fire in 2019. But there are lots of good reasons Ubisoft’s cathedral is technically useless in a historical restoration.
Handshouse held a roof truss building demonstration for the Gwozdziec Synagogue in Sanok, Poland in 2011-12 Photo: Handshouse Studio
A team of around 30 young craftsmen in Washington, DC will use 800-year-old woodworking techniques to reconstruct a piece of the fire-damaged roof of Notre Dame cathedral in Paris. As part of a teaching project organised by the Boston-based Handshouse Studio, the group will erect a full-scale truss that will rise more than three storeys high on the campus of Catholic University this August, with the 45-foot by 35-foot support structure moving to the National Building Museum on the National Mall shortly after. The project is meant to be a “gift” to France and the collective effort to rebuild Notre Dame, and will serve as a living record of tradition techniques.
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you can see the worker there with his mask. remember, just one month after the fire, they showed david the cross? it was still standing. general, this is the cross that the world saw. yes. the entire world saw the cross. reporter: it has now been removed for safety. and remember the charred stones? stones which are coming from the vault here. these are the stones that came from the roof of the cathedral. yes. reporter: well, now archaeologists face the painstaking task of piecing it all back together. they keep all these blocks in here and every stage of the refurbishment, they come in to get what they need. and she says they ve had some unique help from an american. so, an american architect did a plan of notre dame and that s the one you re using? oh wow. back in 2010, u.s. art historian andrew tallon meticulously drew part of the church. and his drawings are now helping to rebuild. and remember the holes in the