Hi peeps,friend of mine at college has been asked to design a sculpture for a local park,the design that won is like an onion ,8 feet tall with quite a tall narrow top neck section....if you get my drift.
the sculpture is to be made from bricks and the "head honcho" says that it can be done single row with nothing in the way of a framework inside
i dont know much about bricks but i recon it will fall down ,he hasnt consulted the students that will be putting the bricks together as he "knows it will work".
so ....what are the chances of it staying up ?.

Slim! Even if the local yobs leave it alone I think the weather would kill it after a few years. Once the rain gets in, it will soon deteriorate.

If I'm reading this right is it like a hollow sphere? If so, it should be ok. There are smoke houses and ice storage rooms dotted around the uk in this shape that have lasted for hundreds of years.

I'm full of cold at the moment so probably have the total wrong image in my head...

I,m sure it will be fine, where I grew up as a lad in the woods there was a Victorian thing, cast cylinders that looked like inverted bombs, brick water tanks and a brick igloo, must have been something to do with pumping water, and it never deteriorated.

Local hoody boys may kill it with paint, in Uxbridge they spent a lot of money on a children's play area with a very nice chrome ball in the garden bit, it looked lovely. 2 days later they had kicked it to death, within a week it was smashed off its steel stake and disappeared.... Probally into the canal, they should have filled it with concrete.

cheers guys,it will be sort of onion shaped with a long neck/top taking it up to 8 feet,my feeling is where the diameter gets smaller it will fall in on itself but maybe i will be proved wrong

Brick structures in curved shapes can be very strong - for example, the "crinkle-crankle wall". The one pictured is quite close to where I live.



[Edited on 19/1/16 by David Jenkins]