LIBRARY STUDIES

 An orgy of tile use. Can you name the ways? 🤔

The hip tiles with broken pieces pushed into the mortar under the end tile to stop it from slumping. Tiled creasing forms a very elegant little corbels to close out the end of the eaves where it turns up into the verge.

The verge itself is very nicely formed, highlighting the double overlap typical of plain tiles. Not sure what to call the tiling of the chimney stack setback. I'm rather partial to tumbling in brick courses in this situation, but tiles seem appropriate here.

The there are the wall-hung tiles of the bay window. Not quite sure but I fancy there is a special at the obtuse angle. I do like a bit of tile hanging on a bay window. The coloration of these tiles is quite something, wouldn't you say? Hand made perhaps. You can't beat the subtlety and warmth of a clay tile.

Could say a fair bit about the use of lead in this image but I think I'll leave it there. This little gem greets me half way down the ginnel on my way to get a bottle of milk. Such a contrast with the equivalent journey in Dubai. Vive la difference!

 

 

A late afternoon foray into the reference library in Basingstoke Discovery Centre. Lots of local history books here to keep me busy once I make the move permanently.

Floor plan of St Michael's, Basingstoke, from a book about Hampshire Churches. A squirrel running around in the War Memorial Park. End elevation of a little group of almshouses at the junction of New Road and London Road. Interesting composition.

 

Isometrics of the Vyne, from a book subtitled "A Tudor House Revealed" Statue of Jane Austen in the Market Square with a nice classical door surround in the background. The War Memorial which gives its name to the Park close to my retirement flat.

 

 

Flying to Tampa today after a 3 day delay. Cutting it a bit fine, but I have to get to San Diego for Autodesk University. My main purpose is to show solidarity with the Volterra team. But also want to catch up with all the other "BIM buddies" who I haven't seen since before the pandemic.

Featuring another two sheets from my version of San Giusto. I understand the model has moved on a bit, but as shown here, all the modelling is mine. I do like to set up sheets with text and photographs around the edges. That was a technique I developed for Project Soane, continued with Project Notre Dame and try to apply to the other Way We Build explorations that I have attempted

 

Real-time models based on scan data are great and the short documentary film put out by the team recently is a thing of beauty. Also highly informative. But good old fashioned drawing sheets still have a role to play in my opinion. This way of presenting information about buildings has been around for some centuries. It's both precise and concise. Interactive, but locked down for contractual purposes.

Anyway, if you are heading for San Diego, please come up and say hi. Not sure how many more conferences I will get to, so I want to meet as many people as possible. I will be hanging out at the Volterra exhibit for much of the time.

See you there. 🙂