utterly random picture thread.

[gremlin]

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Forgive the crap photo.

The Gremlinette has a friend called Julie. She's just finished her Masters in architecture and this is one of the CAD drawings she presented at the end exam. It reflects her Philippine heritage and she is, rightly, chuffed to bits with it.
She is the nicest kid, who's had a bit of a tough life already. Her dad, a respected architect, died in front of her when she was five, and hence she wants to follow in his footsteps. Christ, is she smart and driven!
She calls us her adoptive family and I half-jokingly call her my second daughter. Love her to bits.
I was moved when she said she wanted us to have this picture as a thank you for what we have done for her over the years. It now proudly hangs in the kitchen of Chez Gremlin.

(Frame from IKEA...sorry Julie!)

[636mick]

My cousin's just been to Auchvist.

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I’ve been a couple of times doing research on my distant family. My great, great great grandfather (possibly another great) had 43 members of his family go in, only 1 ever came out and I’m looking at how long they survived, if at all, as many were executed on the day of arrival. In one of the original brick barrack blocks the walls are lined with pictures, with a day/time of arrival, plus a day/time of death. Some of these are measured in less than an hour.
Worth a visit just once in your life.
Mick

[gremlin]

It is on my list of places.

[demographic]

So Carlisles getting a bypass, needs a bridge.


Not my work on this occasion although I do sometimes end up on shuttering jobs it's not really something I've specialised in.

[mangocrazy]

That will take a fair few Readymix lorries to fill. Presumably there is a standard template for structures of this sort and all the shuttering gets re-used multiple times?

[Count Steer]

Mobility scooters have improved a bit since then.

(Safer than his Mini though ).

[Mr. Dazzle]

That will take a fair few Readymix lorries to fill. Presumably there is a standard template for structures of this sort and all the shuttering gets re-used multiple times?

Goes beyond even that, there are standard beams, columns etc. that are pre made off site.

There's a house in Spain made from them. I think it's great but it may not be to all tastes.

Yes that is a swimming pool in that huge gutter.

[Count Steer]

That will take a fair few Readymix lorries to fill. Presumably there is a standard template for structures of this sort and all the shuttering gets re-used multiple times?

Goes beyond even that, there are standard beams, columns etc. that are pre made off site.

There's a house in Spain made from them. I think it's great but it may not be to all tastes.

Yes that is a swimming pool in that huge gutter.

I like a bit of brutalism (but I bet the roof leaks* ).

* maybe that's what the spout/pool at the front is for.

[Mr. Dazzle]

The thing ISTR about that house was that it was surprisingly cheap! Might be getting mixed up with another one on the same TV series but I think that one came in the hundreds of k, rather than the millions I was expecting.

Beauty of using off the shelf bits maybe

Plus it was the artichoke's own house, so presumably he saved a few euros.

[Count Steer]

The thing ISTR about that house was that it was surprisingly cheap! Might be getting mixed up with another one on the same TV series but I think that one came in the hundreds of k, rather than the millions I was expecting.

Beauty of using off the shelf bits maybe

Plus it was the artichoke's own house, so presumably he saved a few euros.

It has echos of Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye (which - 'Due to many different problems it was rarely inhabited. After surviving several proposals to demolish it, it was designated as an official French historical monument in 1965 .... ' Bit of a laugh really as he said 'A house is a machine for living in'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villa_Savoye

[Mr. Dazzle]

Guess you might also be familiar with the former Tricorn centre in Portsmouth?

There was discussion for ages about tearing down this properly 1960s brutalist concrete shopping bunker.

In the end they got rid of the ugly building and replaced it with a beautiful car park

[demographic]

That will take a fair few Readymix lorries to fill. Presumably there is a standard template for structures of this sort and all the shuttering gets re-used multiple times?

Reusable steel shutters for the straight bits and in this case wooden shutters for the curving fascia, soffit looking bit that sticks out. Done right and the wooden shutters should be reusable a good few times then can be taken apart and made into something else afterwards.
You can see one of them either ready to be fitted or just removed on the top, boat bow shaped plywood section.
Plus we sometimes add a timber section in between the steel shutters to buuld up non standard sizes or end widths.
This shows the backs of the steel shutters on one I worked ((briefly) on. Also tou can see the cla.ps that hold the shutters together and the end of the threaded Diwidagg (sp?) bars that go through plastic tubes in the area that will be filled with concrete and the square plates and spinners which hold one wall of the mold a set distance from the other.



For absolutely inspired shuttering work on a massive scale theres a Ninth Fort memorial in Lithuania which is just amazing. Think its something like 100 ffeet high.

[Count Steer]

Guess you might also be familiar with the former Tricorn centre in Portsmouth?

There was discussion for ages about tearing down this properly 1960s brutalist concrete shopping bunker.

In the end they got rid of the ugly building and replaced it with a beautiful car park

I never actually saw the Tricorn Centre in all its glory but shades of Trinity Square, Gateshead in reverse. They knocked down the brutalist development in 2010 (inc. the 'Get Carter' car park*) and replaced it with something nominated for the Carbuncle Cup.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_Square,_Gateshead

* Which I used to use.

[Sadlonelygit]

Came up on my FB feed as a memory today, 11 years ago, which coincidentally was a Sunday.
Bonus points if you can identify the plane and location

[mangocrazy]

That will take a fair few Readymix lorries to fill. Presumably there is a standard template for structures of this sort and all the shuttering gets re-used multiple times?

Goes beyond even that, there are standard beams, columns etc. that are pre made off site.

There's a house in Spain made from them. I think it's great but it may not be to all tastes.

Yes that is a swimming pool in that huge gutter.

Fair bit of cantilevering going on there. I'm sure all the design calcs have been done and the concrete sections are heavily Rebarred, but it doesn't quite look right to me from an engineering standpoint.

And with my aesthetics hat on it's just plain f'n ugly... The Park Hill flats in Sheffield (which I can see from where I'm typing this and were inspired by Corbusier's work) are downright pretty compared to that.

[Count Steer]

And with my aesthetics hat on it's just plain f'n ugly... The Park Hill flats in Sheffield (which I can see from where I'm typing this and were inspired by Corbusier's work) are downright pretty compared to that.

Park Hill was pretty iconic, partly down to the dominant position. People were pretty excited to move in back in the day. A few design flaws though. They're going to be pretty 'yuppie' once the refurb has finished.

Reminds me of the Byker Wall - again really dominant. They got slammed but people loved living in them, they even claimed there was a community atmosphere! Dunno what it's like now, haven't been back to Newcastle since the 80s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byker_Wall

[Mr. Dazzle]

Fair bit of cantilevering going on there. I'm sure all the design calcs have been done and the concrete sections are heavily Rebarred, but it doesn't quite look right to me from an engineering standpoint.

The concrete sections are "off the shelf" built for the express purpose of being beams and cantilevers in motorway bridges. That house is pretty much a holiday for them

[Count Steer]

All this reminds me of my previous house. It was a sort of 'architects dream' (I didn't have it built). It was lovely to live in and was designed to be low maintenance. After 17 years of constant maintenance, mainly to the roof, we sold it with planning permission to demolish it and replace it with 2 'proper' houses*.

It was single storey, steel frame, no structural/load bearing walls at all, large footprint.....flat roof with drains in the middle ie no gutters and lots of trees around. Guess what happened next.....

[mangocrazy]

Fair bit of cantilevering going on there. I'm sure all the design calcs have been done and the concrete sections are heavily Rebarred, but it doesn't quite look right to me from an engineering standpoint.

The concrete sections are "off the shelf" built for the express purpose of being beams and cantilevers in motorway bridges. That house is pretty much a holiday for them

I'm sure you're right, but it just doesn't look quite right to my untrained eye.

I'm not a fan of cantilevering, having had to correct cantilever-supported beams with f**k off steel plates in the French moneypit. The roof was sagging rather alarmingly. But I am talking about wooden joists, not humunguous reinforced concrete I and U beams.

[mangocrazy]

flat roof with drains in the middle ie no gutters and lots of trees around.

What could possibly go wrong?


More to the point, what did actually go wrong...?