timber + trowel

Jacques Marmen owns and runs Timber+Trowel. He works with various professionals to complete each project. He has specialized in the field of natural building for over a decade, focusing on traditional timber framing, natural wall systems, and clay and lime finishes and also has extensive residential renovation and solar photovoltaic installation experience.

He completed the Cobworks apprenticeship program in 2010 and completed the timber framing program at the College of the Rockies in 2017, along with various other internships, volunteering, teaching and contracting on natural builds over the last decade.

In 2006 Jacques interned at a permaculture farm and has incorporated these ethics and principles into all of his design and processes and continually strives to refine his approach to the design/build process, teaming up with specialists appropriate for every job- whether they are engineers who are welcoming of natural building science, draftsmen who are familiar with joinery, or the team of timber framers who produce with him all the traditional timber framing.

He particularly loves carpentry, traditional joinery, fine finishes, round wood timber structures, earthen ovens and dry stack stonework, but will always search to incorporate the best solution for the particular design the customer has in mind.

He’s obsessed with material science, the intersection of modern technology and traditional craftsmanship and regenerative design technology.

Jacques currently lives with his partner in a off grid cabin near Lillooet, BC. When he isn’t busy building earthen architecture, he enjoys foraging, researching, playing music, maintaining his fleet of waste vegetable oil-powered vehicles and listening to podcasts like Future Ecologies.

Jacques operates with an array of other professionals and labourers depending on specific project demands, scope and timelines. Contact @ timber.trowel@gmail.com