Pergola and Trusses

Now the terrace is shaping up it's time for a pergola, for shadow. You can build pergolas in one hundred and a half way. It seems that we are going to do something with aluminum trusses. You know trusses, pop concerts, and so on. Aluminum alloy beams made of tubes with zigzag joints, like:

Those who likes it can check out the GlobalTruss website. A delicious meccano system with liggers, corner pieces, etc, in all sizes and shapes. And even arches, ideally suited for romantic bowers.

The intention is now to fidge a construction in front of the house, where at the top a piece of fabric is positioned for shadow. Here's a simple impression of a 12 meter long pergola with the "deco" truss variant F14, 10x10cm, and also with the larger (and more expensive) variant F24, measuring 29x29cm.

Dont forget to imagine some climbing flowering plants.

This is 18 meters, 3 sections of 6 meters: