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Greg Perry <supernerd23@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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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).
I've gotten nailed by this before. Doh! I hate it when someone else posts
something sort-of similar to what I'm working on so it looks like I copied
them. It sounds like your stuff is going to be different though. Actually,
the idea started out with the octogon compartment first. I only came up
with the idea of putting it in a tree later.
>
> 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.
There are gaps. You can just barely see the gap in this shot.
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=49533
Notice how the studs are offset about 4 studs in from the door. That is
where the gap is.
I'm going to do a little write-up on the construction of this building in a
separate post.
>
> 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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