The concrete foundation distributed on two beams below and the catenary line scored off the Artifex wall mark the landing and line the vault will follow...
Juan Herreros gives the participants a lecture based on his exploration on hybrid construction methods and his Mallorca house which has been considered from a handful of projects around the world for the Mies Van Der Rohe Award.
Carson Chan cuts stone, and Lara is busy at continuing the basket-handle barrel vault...
Robert Lopez Hinton gives the group a fascinating look at his beautiful work alongside his wife for preservation and refurbishing of traditional Mallorca houses, and then later took the group on a field trip to see one of his beautiful restoration projects.
Scott at work, cutting the mares stone-tiles for the vault...
Carson Chan gives his lecture about his projectspace Program-Berlin, and presents several projects to the group...
The dry masonry wall exercise continues forward, as well as the marking of the "guide-work" for the vault design...As Michael Ramage remarks, a centering supports the work, whereas a guide-work is just a form that helps to control the curves of a vault or arch, a fascinating and clever low-tech resource belonging to the family of the free spanning vaults. Less centering means less wood, and also, a substantial reduce in budget. More important than that, is also the place of the artisan at the contemporary building site, his/her opportunity of contributing at the final result, something that is frequently denied to the contemporary mason.
