The story of a house . ries, which areonly a few kilometres from here. Our angles, door andwindow frames, our borders, cornices, dormers, gable-copings,shall be made of freestone. Let us besrin with the is how you will order Papa Branchu about the dress-ing of the stone; it is very simple. In this part of thecountry they cut pattern-stones ; that is, the quarries sendthem according to a measure given in advance, and the priceis less per cube according as the cutting is more uniformand easy. Xow our walls are GO c. in thickness in the heightof the ground-floor. Let A (Fig. 30) be an
The story of a house . ries, which areonly a few kilometres from here. Our angles, door andwindow frames, our borders, cornices, dormers, gable-copings,shall be made of freestone. Let us besrin with the is how you will order Papa Branchu about the dress-ing of the stone; it is very simple. In this part of thecountry they cut pattern-stones ; that is, the quarries sendthem according to a measure given in advance, and the priceis less per cube according as the cutting is more uniformand easy. Xow our walls are GO c. in thickness in the heightof the ground-floor. Let A (Fig. 30) be an angle; you willorder all the stones for erecting them from the same pattern,with a length of 85 c. by a width of GOc, and a meanheight of 46 c, which is the ordinary height of the quarrybanks in this vicinity. These angle stones will be placed as 126 THE STORY OF A HOUSE. I show you here, one a b c d, the other, above, a ef g, whenceit will result that each stone will form alternately, on one a i ^ 0 A c f CK d9 ~>. Fig. 30. side and the other, a toothing-stone of 25 c. The scappledashlar having a bank height of about 15 c, we shall have BUILDING IN ELEVATION. 127 three ranks of this ashlar in the height of each stone course,and the construction will rise as indicated by the perspectivetracing B. Between the looting and the bordering of thefirst floor we have 4 m. 20 c.; thus nine stone courses, besidesthe layers, will make the height Let us see how we shalldispose of our window-frames. We must keep the placingof blinds in mind, as these cannot be dispensed with in thecountry, and cannot be put on the front without a bad effect,besides that they would quickly deteriorate, would be hard toopen and shut, and would impose on the occupants the neces-siv of a rather unpleasant species of gymnastics. Theremust be sufficient splayings on the interior, so that the case-ments shall not Hush the walls, and shall leave a space betweenthem and the curtains. Our largest windows are 1 m.
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