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Sure it took a while to build this little lookout tower :3 but back then I had plenty of time in a summer holiday (and of course plenty of used matches and glue).
The time I built this I was kind of fanatic about lookout towers, I just loved how the structure was composed, the thin wooden columns which still could keep a massive structure standing even in strong winds.
The picture was taken today using a cheap digital camera (with it's built-in flash), a prism from an old broken analog camera, and a small round mirror. I held the prism tight on the flash to direct it's light towards the mirror which then cast this round light patch on the wall. It needed a "few" tries to get it right lying on the floor holding all this junk in my hands :p. I couldn't manage to get the left side right since the prism was just too small while the mirror was too large for the purpose, well, i had not got anything better in my garbage dump.
The time I built this I was kind of fanatic about lookout towers, I just loved how the structure was composed, the thin wooden columns which still could keep a massive structure standing even in strong winds.
The picture was taken today using a cheap digital camera (with it's built-in flash), a prism from an old broken analog camera, and a small round mirror. I held the prism tight on the flash to direct it's light towards the mirror which then cast this round light patch on the wall. It needed a "few" tries to get it right lying on the floor holding all this junk in my hands :p. I couldn't manage to get the left side right since the prism was just too small while the mirror was too large for the purpose, well, i had not got anything better in my garbage dump.
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That is cool. You've really thought this out well in terms of design! Even including an enclosed staircase and a very interesting looking roof. I love this. Lol oddly enough I've had this fascination with stilted buildings for the same reason. What seem like this wooden posts are actually very strong.
Thanks! Truly it has some additional story: a few years before in school art class there was a homework project, subject probably being somewhat broad, I remember others gave in stuff like simple cylindrical dustbin and such. So I came up with the idea of some similar watch tower. The goals were drawing the three primary views, an axonometric view, a perspective view, a close-up of a part, and a distant view in an environment. The architecture was similar, as I remember I couldn't finish the axonometric view to the end of the term (the top of the tower was missing), but still, my work was displayed for about a year in the school hall. Later I got to see them scrapped somewhere. The original model had an external stair (as usual for watch towers), for this small match model I used a shaft to avoid the work of doing all the stairs. The top was octagonal on the original plan as well, but with a simpler roof design of eight triangles. This one is composed of four irregular pentagons and four triangles, and as a twist, it is not symmetric with the bottom part (the axes of symmetry for the bottom and the top make a 22,5 degree angle).
I also find stilted buildings interesting - from times to times I wondered what if once much later I bought up some cheaper land within the flood-basin of a river (people always seem to build in these lands anyway here and in the more wet years it's always them crying that their houses end up flooded), and as proper I would build something alike there. It would be interesting to live in such a naturally rich place. But of course the same as a port city is also quite interesting (wonder where such exist nowadays?).
I also find stilted buildings interesting - from times to times I wondered what if once much later I bought up some cheaper land within the flood-basin of a river (people always seem to build in these lands anyway here and in the more wet years it's always them crying that their houses end up flooded), and as proper I would build something alike there. It would be interesting to live in such a naturally rich place. But of course the same as a port city is also quite interesting (wonder where such exist nowadays?).
LOL cool. Well I love the results
Actually there are quite a few places with stilted houses. Most are in Asia and Africa. There is actually a massive stilt town with something like half a million people living in it. That one is in Lagos, Nigeria. They are most common in Asia it seems though, especially southeast Asia in places like Cambodia and Vietnam
Actually there are quite a few places with stilted houses. Most are in Asia and Africa. There is actually a massive stilt town with something like half a million people living in it. That one is in Lagos, Nigeria. They are most common in Asia it seems though, especially southeast Asia in places like Cambodia and Vietnam
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