Archive for the ‘Progress’ Category
Construction
Posted in Progress on November 10, 2007| Leave a Comment »
Day 39 – Finishing touches
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Day 33 – Nearly there… a few teasers
Posted in Progress on November 5, 2007| Leave a Comment »
Day 32 – Plants and Monoliths
Posted in Progress on November 4, 2007| Leave a Comment »
Jonny breaches the cordon and enters the mud free zone to do yet more digging..
…to make a base for this slate monolith…
…plants arrive on site…
…some more tyres are painted blue to make waves…
…and the blue boat in lined to make it into a planter.
Day 31 – Mud Free Zone
Posted in Progress on November 3, 2007| Leave a Comment »
A trip to the world of timber…
…and a big pile of timber…
…is transformed…
…into planting boxes…
…and giant pencils…
…pink floyd boat is painted red…
…the tyre wall gets a hose down and is finished off with purple slate chippings…
…the patio is washed and scrubbed…
…and declared a mud free zone in preparation for painting.
Day 30 – Tyred
Posted in Progress on November 1, 2007| Leave a Comment »
The second course is laid…
…and the hardcore goes in behind…
…Adam makes waves…
… and the third course of tyres with loose topsoil and compost for planting goes on top of the tyre wall.
Day 29 – Curve and Swerve
Posted in Progress on October 31, 2007| Leave a Comment »
Back to pounding the earth into the tyres…
…and we start to lay the first course…make sure it’s level…
…and the wall starts to take shape…
…boat gets a fresh lick of paint…
…curve and swerve, the first course is finished.
Day 28 – Deliveries Arrive
Posted in Progress on October 31, 2007| Leave a Comment »
Today the deliveries from our beg, steal or borrow list arrived.
First the railway sleepers…
…boats and tyres…
…pink floyd boat…
…huuuge wagon…
…and some slate sculptures.
Day 27 – First Day On Site
Posted in Progress on October 29, 2007| Leave a Comment »
We started digging…
… Adam customised his pink gardening gloves…
…we kept our strength up with tea and biscuits…
… and laid our first tyre…
… and made nineteen more voluptuous beauties.
…and sorted out about a tonne of hardcore from the earth: note we do not need to buy any hardcore.
Day 24 – Finalising, Testing
Posted in Progress on October 27, 2007| 2 Comments »
On Friday morning we took the revised proposal for the patio scheme to the client. We were pleased that the scheme received an equally good reception as the aspirational scheme had when we presented it earlier in the week. We were given an outline go-ahead to start the tyre wall part of the plan but we are still awaiting word to confirm plans for the race track.
Following the good news we decided to test a small part of the tyre wall on site. Making the components for the tyre wall essentially involves cramming as much earth as is physically possible into a tyre so that it becomes heavy and firm and can be used as a solid building component. Approximately 4 wheelbarrows full of earth needs to be squashed into each tyre and the process involves lots of earth compacting, stamping on it, jumping on it and generally hitting it with a sledge hammer until the tyre becomes firm and ‘voluptuous.’ We filled three tyres and were reassured that, whilst the process is physically demanding, it is possible and we could complete our plan before the end of the live project. Now we just need to locate a few more sledge hammers and finalise a few more details before before Monday.
Sheffield Live Project 2007 