New studio construction ("Color of Sound")

Hi community, my name is Mathias. I'm living in a town between Karlsruhe and Heidelberg, Germany. We are running a music school which is one factor delaying the construction of the studio which was planned 2004 originally. You know we have the year 2010. Which means that after 6 years we have some first construction results. I want to share this and the upcoming construction results with the community. To follow my design ideas and questions you can go to http://www.johnlsayers.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=11926 I try to handle in my corresponding design post. I appreciate any comment. So let's start with my diary. I hope you can enjoy the more the construction proceeds. Cheers, Mathias

First of all I have to go back to the year 2005. In autumn 2005 we decided to take the first steps. We built the basement

After that we build the base floor with a ~ 25cm thick concrete. Still in 2005. Here is the final result.

42 months later (in May 2009) we proceeded our work. We started the wall construction. The walls consists of lime-sand brick with a thickness of 24cm. The insulation of those walls is figured with 55 dB. I know that now the weakest point of the building will be the windows and doors.

We prepared the support for the ceiling. The plates had a thickness of 5-7cm with a lot of iron in it. 1 hour later the plates were on the walls. After that we could fix the border and bring in the second layer of iron "mats". The next step was to bring in the concrete.

As a final step of the shell construction the carpenter fixed the roof in November 2009.

cool! :thu: looking forward to how it'll grow. - ich bin gespannt - =) greetings, carsten

32.5 kg per block, wow! :shock:

adam wrote:

32.5 kg per block, wow! :shock:

Hi Adam, sorry I went wrong with the weight of each stone. I checked it in the specification of "Heidelberger Kalksandsteine". The weight was "only" 27,8 kg per stone, because we have chosen density 2,0. The 32 kg is the weight for density 2,2. I corrected this in my post. But anyway they were heavy enough to let the board we and the stones were standing on break. But luckily nothing happened beside a few black and blew marks. The easy part were the first 4 rows. It was no fun but a good training to bring them in the last row (350cm height) without any mechanical help. Thanks, Mathias

And this is the state of the building before we started the winter break. The carpenter finished the roof in time.

Here are some pics from inside. There's still a lot of material in which we want to keep dry.

Here comes the last view.