Friday, October 19, 2007

Black Tree House Construction

In the Begining....

There was nothing and then 5 tubes of concrete taller than any tall thing that had come before them, reached to the sky.To some it made no sense and to others even less but to ArroDesign it was the start of a thing of great beauty , the start of a new frontier , the start of a lot of work.



Go round not square!!!!



Forms were designed in our custom state of the art CAD laboratory and built onsite using a unique combination of equal parts super secret fabric forming technology (SSFFT) and Ripton ingenuity.  The square end of the form allows for the internal placement of a fireplace.









So that the owners could watch the TV in the house from the tree house custom windows were designed ( in our CAD lab ) - below you can see the form work and rebar layout on the inside of the form that you see above - lying on the ground in the foreground you can see the curved edge of the inside form for this wall. During times of heavy construction our site manager Dave Manning would " sleep over " and used this form as shelter from the elements while he rested up for a few hours.

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