What is a sketch design?
A sketch design is the first real design stage of a building project: overall form, layout and feasibility explored in sketches. What it covers and how to prepare.
What is a centering segment (schenkel)?
A centering segment (Dutch: schenkel) is a curved part of an arch centre: a short curved former of timber boards on which an arch or vault is built.
What is a scheluwe staircase (stair with a winding start or finish)?
A scheluwe staircase starts or ends with a slight turn using winders, so the treads are not parallel. In a double version, both the start and the finish turn.
What is winding (twist) in timber?
Winding means twisted out of plane: a warped board or door, a stair with winders, or a twisted roof plane. How to spot winding in timber and prevent it.
What is shell stone (schelpsteen)?
Shell stone (Dutch: schelpsteen) is a natural stone cut in blocks from hardened shell ridges on the coast of Suriname, used among others in Fort Zeelandia in Paramaribo.
What is shell lime mortar?
Shell lime mortar is a historic Dutch masonry mortar made from lime of burnt seashells and sand. Its properties, and what to use when restoring old brickwork.
What is shell lime?
Shell lime is lime made by burning and slaking seashells. For centuries it was the basis of masonry mortar in the Netherlands. How it is made and used.
What are shells used for in construction?
Seashells (the lime skeletons of molluscs) are used in construction in crawl spaces, as a path surface, for drainage and as the raw material for shell lime.
What is an arcade arch (nave arcade)?
An arcade arch separates the nave of a church from its aisles, carried on piers or columns. In Dutch the chancel arch is sometimes given the same name.
What is ship deck flooring?
Ship deck flooring is made of narrow, long, quarter-sawn boards, often teak, with caulked or sealed joints. What it is, why quarter-sawn matters and how to lay it.