theconrodkid
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| posted on 18/1/16 at 06:18 PM |
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brickie type question
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 ? .
who cares who wins
pass the pork pies
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Smoking Frog
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| posted on 18/1/16 at 07:08 PM |
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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.
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joneh
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| posted on 18/1/16 at 07:28 PM |
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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...
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mark chandler
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| posted on 18/1/16 at 07:41 PM |
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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.
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theconrodkid
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| posted on 18/1/16 at 09:08 PM |
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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
who cares who wins
pass the pork pies
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David Jenkins
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| posted on 19/1/16 at 03:00 PM |
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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]
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