Thursday, July 2, 2015

Vaults for a Primary school.

Through a query about bricks, I mentioned our roofs to an architectural firm in Dar.  That lead to me speaking at a workshop of theirs and then this job for Dickson.  It is a private primary school roof .

Classroom is 3 vaults.  One is clay brick and others are cement paving blocks.  Hallway outside the classroom has vaulted roofs and groined vault in the middle.  This job is leading to more jobs.
























6 comments:

  1. Very nice work! I see you make your forms out of plywood? How do express your geometry to create the form...chain?

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  2. WOW! It looks great!
    I Agree with leaving ceiling raw-brick.
    the beam spanning the classroom side without a supporting arch (photo #3 and last photograph) appears surprisingly long to me. I assumed the roof weight would be too much to be supported by such a large span beam - is that concrete beam extraordinarily reinforced?

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  3. thanks for reading.

    That beam surprises me also but this is done by large architectural firm so they must of done the calculations.

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  4. It's looking great,
    i am also planning to build the same, can you please help me that how you calculated size of beam and column which are going to support main vault

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    1. We were just masons. There was architect and engineer who speced the beams.

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