Posted on the old site on August 4, 2008The First Building
The building has a catenary arch shape – the shape a chain or rope takes when hung between two points. When inverted, this is the best load-bearing shape and the wind resistance will be fairly low compared with a conventional building. I was intrigued to read some time ago that Gaudi used this technique to design the Sagrada The first arch is made – a bit of a struggle getting the timber bent, but managed in the end. The next ones will be easier now I’ve sorted the problems on this one.  completely failed to convince the journalist, but you can't win them all. About 5:30 a fishing boat arrived with a film crew from ITV doing a series of programmes called Islands of Britain. The boat would not come into my peerie harbour, so I had to ferry them to the island in my boat. Two cameramen, two sound men, a producer and an organiser, plus presenter Martin Clunes. They stayed an hour longer than they intended and a good time was had by all. Fine day for it.
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Things are progressing well with the house. The floor is laid and protected with polythene sheeting. I leveled the base using small shingle from the beach (taken up with a yoke and two buckets!). I then laid polystyrene foam boards 50mm. thick and interlocking particle board flooring on top. I now have a level surface to work on. 
Familia in Barcelona and wanted to try it out for myself in a simple way.