1.
INTRODUCTORY NOTE: DRYSTONE BUILDERS OF TODAY
2. OFFICIAL FORMALITIES
2.1 Prior notification of
construction work, planning permission
2.2 Insurance
3. NUMBER OF
PARTICIPANTS
3.1 "Too many cooks spoil the
broth"
3.2 The advantages of working
in tandem
4.
CONSTRUCTION MATERIAL
4.1 Volume of stone required
4.2 The Source of Stone
4.3 Putting the stones in
order
4.4 Carrying the stones to the
building site
4.5 Laying the stones in the
work area
4.6 Shifting the stone on-site
4.7 Stone handling
5. TOOLS
5.1 Clearing the building-plot
5.2 Splitting the strata of
rocky outcrops
5.3 Breaking up big blocks
5.4 Lifting half-buried stone
5.5 Digging stoney ground
5.6 Rough-hewing stone
5.7 Levelling up the stone
facing
5.8 Wedging stone properly
5.9 Laying out the foundations
5.10 Making sure the wall has
the same batter throughout
5.11 Putting the lintel and
inner-lintel in place
5.12 Covering the extrados of
the vault with earth
6. SHAPING THE STONES
6.1 Raw or worked materials?
6.2 Rough-hewing
6.3 Levelling up the stone
facing
6.4 Giving a chamfered edge to
the stone facing of a corbelled vault
7. BUILDING THE WALLS AND
FOUNDATIONS
7.1 The ground site
7.2 Foundations
7.3 Reconstruction of a hut
whose walls and foundations have collapsed
7.4 The pivot
7.5 Moveable stands
7.6 External scaffolding
7.7 Laying the "first stone"
8. RULES OF
GOOD DRYSTONE MASONRY
8.1 Laying the stones in
alignment with their natural bedding
8.2 Laying stones according to
the form of their upper and lower surfaces
8.3 Giving the outer facing a
batter
8.4 Laying stones in
horizontal courses
8.5 Staggered joints
8.6 Laying stones as headers,
or bands
8.7 Laying throughbands at
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8.8 Stabilizing stones in all
six directions with wedges
8.9 Use of "grapeshot" to be
avoided
8.10 Insulation with earth
8.11 Use of pinnings in the
façing to be avoided
9. BUILDING AN ENTRANCE
9.1 The entrance’s placing
9.2 A doorway
9.3 A doorless entrance
9.4 Roofing technique for the
entrance
10. CONSTRUCTING THE ROOFING
10.1 Floor
10.2 Pivot and slant-marking
line
10.3 Ladder
10.4 Course of stone eaves
plates (in cylindrical, conical huts)
10.5 Course of large blocks at
the starting-point of the corbelling
10.6 Stones for the vaulting
10.7 The vault’s coping-stone
or crown
10.8 Roof covering stones on
the vault’s extrados
10.9 Stone cladding on the
vault’s extrados
11. SPECIAL
CASE: CONSTRUCTION OF A BUILDING ON A SQUARE PLAN
11.1 Four right-angles in the
base part
11.2 A pyramid-shaped roof or
a conical one with a flat-stone tiling?
11.3 The pyramid-shaped roof
option
11.4 The conical stone-tiled
roof option
12. FITTING
OUT THE HUT’S INTERIOR
12.1 Construction of a niche
12.2 Construction of a window
aperture
12.3 Construction of a seat
12.4 Flooring
12.5 Construction a fireplace
12.6 Putting in a coat hanger
13. SIGNING
AND DATING THE CONSTRUCTION
14. WHAT TO DO
WITH THE NEW BUILDING?
14.1 A ready-made use:
toolshed, lumber room, storehouse
14.2 How to light up the
interior
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOURCES
INSERTS
1 -
Factory worker-builders of the capitelles
2 - The "two capitelles" constructed by
Jean Castel and Pierre Paulet, "workers" of Nîmes, in 1620
3 - Distinguished amateurs
4 - The last of the builders of cabanons
pointus
5 - The tools of dry stone builders in
the Ardèche and Ariège départements (France), in the Catalan and
Valencian countries (Spain)
6 - Irises and dry stone building
7 - Building of a dry stone hut (or
capitelle) in 2004-2005 |