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Fantastic Ferrocement: For Practical, permanent Elven Architecture, Follies, Fairy Gardens and Other Virtuous Ventures
De Peter Harris
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- Peter Harris
- Sortie:
- Apr 18, 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780958294584
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- Livre
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If you have ever wanted to sculpt or build in a permanent material that is extremely strong and can be moulded to any shape, ferrocement is the medium for you - and this concise book shows you how.
Tools, techniques and sample projects - a garden pot, angel, dome, and more - are all logically described and illustrated. The many photos showing the building of Cafe Eutopia by the author and his family will inspire and inform, while the introduction and 'Origins' story and updates on the progress of a ferrocement cafe and 'temple' to Love, Beauty, Truth, and Freedom add a deeper dimension to this book which shows the struggle to marry an abstract ideal with a(literally) concrete realisation.
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Fantastic Ferrocement: For Practical, permanent Elven Architecture, Follies, Fairy Gardens and Other Virtuous Ventures
De Peter Harris
Description
If you have ever wanted to sculpt or build in a permanent material that is extremely strong and can be moulded to any shape, ferrocement is the medium for you - and this concise book shows you how.
Tools, techniques and sample projects - a garden pot, angel, dome, and more - are all logically described and illustrated. The many photos showing the building of Cafe Eutopia by the author and his family will inspire and inform, while the introduction and 'Origins' story and updates on the progress of a ferrocement cafe and 'temple' to Love, Beauty, Truth, and Freedom add a deeper dimension to this book which shows the struggle to marry an abstract ideal with a(literally) concrete realisation.
- Éditeur:
- Peter Harris
- Sortie:
- Apr 18, 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780958294584
- Format:
- Livre
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Fantastic Ferrocement - Peter Harris
Fantastic
Ferrocement
for
Practical, Permanent Elven Architecture, Follies, Fairy Gardens and other Virtuous Ventures
Peter Harris
Copyright Peter Harris 2004, 2012
Based on 1st printed edition 31 July 2006
revised extended and updated April 2012 for this ebook
ISBN 978-0-9582945-8-4
Smashwords edition
Published by Eutopia Press
P.O. Box 37, Kaiwaka
Northland 0542
New Zealand
Ph 09 4312 178
http://www.eutopia.co.nz
email: peter@eutopia.co.nz
Table of Contents
Introduction
1 Origins
2 What is possible?
3 The Concept, Costs and Benefits of ferrocement
The concept of ferrocement
Practical ferrocement technique - overview
What ferrocement is best for - a cost-benefit analysis of the method
Environmental concerns
4 The Nitty-gritty:How to make fantastic ferrocement
A. Tools And Gear You’ll Need
B Materials For Ferrocement
Reinforcing
Fastening
Plastering
Sand
Cement
Plasticiser
Adhesive
Paint
C Safety And Comfort
5 Step by step: general instructions, techniques and tips
A: Planning
Things to bear in mind when designing in ferrocement:
Architects, Engineers and Red Tape
Drawing up plans
Making a Model
Calculating materials needed
For the chicken wire
For the reinforcing
For the lacing wire
B: Foundations
C: Reinforcing
Cutting reinforcing to length
Bending reinforcing
Tying reinforcing
Zig-zagging to make ribs/beams
Lifting-loops, conduit, holes
D: Chicken Wire
Cutting chicken wire
Lacing chicken wire in place
E Plastering
Mixing Plaster
Applying plaster
First Coat
Second/final coat
Third/carving coat
Sponge finishing
F: Curing Plaster
G: Scraping , Sanding and Carving
H: Painting
I Cutting and Drilling Ferrocement
J Doors And Windows , Stained Glass , & Glass Pebble Windows
Small windows
Tiny rainbow windows
Larger, opening windows:
Doors
Stained Glass and Glass Pebble
Decorative rocks etc.
Polystyrene shapes
Shelves and benches/sinkbenches/desks
K Moving Ferrocement Objects
6 Sample Projects
Project 1. Garden border for raised beds
Project 2. Angel/Gnome
Project 3. Garden Pot
Project 4. A 2.5 Metre Dome
Watertanks
Ferrocement bushbath
7 Coloured pictures and updates to the Eutopia story
8 Further Sources
More things by Peter Harris
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Introduction
This book is mostly about the joy of ferrocement as a medium for the creation of durable beauty. The joy of having a concrete means to realise beautiful dreams that would otherwise be impossible without frightening amounts of money. Dreams of natural shapes, fantastical, whimsical, inspirational, sublime. Fountains, domes, follies, grottos, garden borders, birdbaths, ponds, pots, sculptures, steps, bridges, boats, towers.…
The joy of ferrocement, like all joys, takes a little knowledge, provided here, but mostly just the courage to actually, physically try it. Your very first try can be useable, beautiful and above all a bridge to all the other possibilities that will suddenly open up to you when you realise how easy it is.
I hope you will use this book to build your bridge from the irrational
‘I can’t, because I never have,’ to the triumphant ‘I can, because I
just did!’
Just do it’ is a very wise saying, cutting through so much junk thought! There are so many skills I thought for years would be too hard to try, until I finally just tried them. Then they suddenly seemed easy—from then on it was just a matter of practice. This is a beginner’s progress scale for the skill of ferrocement:
1. Buy this book. Congratulations! You’re halfway there. (Plus, you have helped fund the building of Dreamspace, the ferrocement fairyland of inspiration dedicated to Beauty, Truth, Love, and Freedom!)
2. Buy the materials and a few tools if you don’t already have them; you’re 80% there.
3. Make a shape with the wire; you’re 90% there.
4. Mix your plaster and plaster it onto your shape. Fantastic! You’re 99% there.
Now you know how to do it, you’ll be able to do it again any time. It’s like riding a bike, and you’ll get better at it every time, 100% guaranteed!
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1 Origins
The first recorded use of ferrocement was by a country gentleman, Jean-Louis Lambot, who built a little ferrocement rowing boat in
1848. In a book I read in 1969 there was a photo of this pretty little boat—it was still in use on a lake. Lambot patented the method and planned bridges and other structures.
In 1849 a gardener, apparently working independently, used ferrocement to build flowerpots and, later on, garden furniture.
In the sixties and seventies there were a lot of ferrocement boats built, some very good ones professionally, in New Zealand. There was one plasterer in Whangarei who tells me his firm plastered over 400 boats! But there were many not so well done, and these gave the method a bad name. The main culprit was air pockets leading to rust and cracking of the hull. And the lighter, quicker-to-build fibreglass took over. It is a pity, as the chemicals used in fibreglass are not nice.
My own experiences: from ferrocement submarines and showers to Dreamspace and Café Eutopia
When I was a boy I read about ferrocement keelers and dreamed of building one. Then I forgot the dream until I went diving one day with a friend. I was entranced by the beauty of the undersea world, while nearly drowning through the snorkel, so I thought: ‘Why not build a little ferrocement submarine?’ Partly with this dream in mind, I left school and began building it in my parent’s garage, but lack of money and practical knowledge, added to the distractions of being a teenager seeking the Meaning of Life, the Universe and Everything, meant that the rusting skeleton of the ferrocement dream was abandoned.
Submarines have to meet some very stringent requirements, which lie outside the scope of this book. Nearly everything else is a push- over in comparison. Still, it was many years before I got back into ferrocement. This time I was studying philosophy in Auckland, and we had just bought an old bungalow. It had no shower, and we were strapped for cash, so I decided to build one, and ferrocement sprang to mind. Despite Raewyn’s misgivings, I went ahead. The results were quick and permanent. It was a pity I didn’t bother to get some reinforcing rod—the chicken wire was a bit saggy, so we ended up with a wavy-walled shower. But it was good for singing in, and very, very strong. We found that we had built not only a comforting shower but also a reassuring earthquake shelter.
Then there was the think tank, my
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