Comments on: Philippe Block: Bricks Don’t Lie http://www.archi-ninja.com/philippe-block-bricks-dont-lie/ Fri, 15 Mar 2019 20:33:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.0.4 By: Erik Rowberg http://www.archi-ninja.com/philippe-block-bricks-dont-lie/#comment-315 Sat, 08 Jun 2013 06:33:00 +0000 http://www.archi-ninja.com/?p=3237#comment-315 found this useful. I am amateur untrained builder of vaults and domes. I started with nubian type barrel vaults and progressed to groined brick vaults and now onto catalan vaulting. I have built 6m groined vaults. My real aim is to lower cost of low income housing, both walls and roofs.

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1- “high potential for earthquakes —a condition in which masonry doesn’t perform so well” IMHO you have to qualify that. there are cases like syria where masonry did as well as modern reinforced concrete.

2- training quickly and efficiently. I think the problem is it is not something one should attempt to pop into a country, train and leave. Masons are going to try new things and they need someone to help them. My current mason can now do his own catenary vault design, but when it comes to loading.

My biggest problem, especially early on, was advice. How to i cut pieces for the groin so they interlock? in groins do I have to calculate forces in the groin, or just the two vaults? In catalan vaults without formwork what tricks to use with gypsum mortar. I have to experiment and experiment. No where does anyone talk at length about how that is used practically.

I have to look into the Rhino software.

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