Plan P4

This 20' x 16' Scissor Truss Pavilion features a clean, contemporary timber frame design with soaring vaulted ceilings and an open, spacious feel. The scissor truss creates a dramatic architectural centerpiece while maintaining the timeless beauty of traditional timber framing. Ideal for an outdoor living area, patio cover, outdoor kitchen, or backyard entertaining space, this pavilion offers a perfect balance of style, strength, and functionality.

This timber frame plan set includes the timber frame elevations, complete timber, fastener, and connector lists, post layouts, beam layouts, rafter and plate layouts, fastening details, and individual single beam drawings. The frame is designed using traditional mortise and tenon joinery and incorporates a balanced combination of primary and secondary timbers for strength, efficiency, and lasting beauty. Let us help you get started today with this set of plans.

Building Specifications:

Size: 20' x 16'

Frame Specifications:

Timbers are 1/2" under full dimension

Joinery: Mortise and Tenon

Posts: 8x8 and 8x10

Top Chords: 8x10

Bottom Chords: 8x10

Bottom Plates: 8x12

Ridge Board: 6x14

Common Rafters: 4x10

Roof Pitch: 9 Pitch

Wall Height: 9'