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Brad - I love tree houses so of course I really dig your cafe creation. I
have to confess though that I let out a little mental groan when I saw the
subject of your posting because I've been working on a tree house (actually
tree village) idea myself recently. Having seen your pictures however I feel
better because there are signifcant design differences (my structures are
based on using the brown 4x4 round bricks as the trunks of trees).
Not only is your cafe inside a tree but it's also an octagon! This also is
another passion of mine. I love octagonal shaped buildings - a fetish I
developed from my time in Colonial Williamsburg (Virginia) when I worked at
the Powder Magazine. That building has an octagon shape and there are also
several other buildings in town that make use of eight-sided features.
I'm curious about some of the details of your structure - namely the way you
did the flooring inside. When I set out to build the Magazine recently
(link to pics below) I at first thought that I might use a design similar to
yours. I had thought that I could build the 8 walls and then connect them
with hinges at the corners. I ended up not doing that because I didn't
think I would then be able to put in flooring that would cover the whole
surface area of the structure. I ended up using a stair-step method for the
angled walls in my building which made it a lot easier to do the floors but
of course makes the outside not exactly perfect.
So for your floors - do they cover the whole area of the cafe or are there
gaps? If the whole floor is covered then how did you work with the angled
walls? Are you perhaps using triangular shaped plates for these sections of
the floor? I couldn't really tell from the interior shots you posted.
Thanks (as always) for sharing pictures of your creations.
Greg
P.S. Pictures of my octagonal building:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=4145
In lugnet.build, Brad Hamilton writes:
> This is my tree house cafe. Its a restaurant situated in the top of a
> massive tree.
>
> http://members.home.net/hmltn1/topia/tree.htm
>
> It uses some pretty tricky engineering techniques with an octagonal shape.
>
> Here is the city containing it:
> http://members.home.net/hmltn1/topia/topia.htm
>
> LMKWYT
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