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Re: Have you ever eaten in a tree house?
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Date: 
Fri, 15 Jun 2001 23:47:05 GMT
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Greg Perry <supernerd23@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:GEzE2t.2KI@lugnet.com...
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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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 (...) (23 years ago, 15-Jun-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.town)

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