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Since the fourth façade is cut it is time to present a first impression of how the future skyline of the “Amsterdam Canal Project” will look like.


Introduction:

This next facade is a stepped gable dated around 1623. The stepped gable became popular in medieval times. In the Netherlands this era was called the Dutch Renaissance. This building style tried to avoid diagonal lines as much as possible. The stepped gable was a way to conceal the actual roof.

I used a drawings from the Amsterdam Archives from which I made a new drawing to the right scale. Since the ground floor falls back a bit I adjusted the temporary casting form in a way that I got this right during the casting of the form.



The cutting process:

I still had a lot of work to bring down the surface of the walls in a way that the horizontal beams would stick out a bit. This was done in two sessions. After the first session I carved the arches and decorative horizontal lines after which I cut the surface back once more.



Another idea was to let the wooden hatched stick out a bit from the frame. The result is fine although in the end I think I had to carve hinges as well. This will be corrected before I start making the silicone form.

Before I will make the silicone form I will have to add two other features to this façade apart from the hinges. The decorative plated on top of each step of the gable Will be added as well as the Cramp Irons.

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