Transcript TOPLESS : The Art of Building between the Studs

Tile or Plate Located
between Enough Studs
The Art of building
between the studs
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Tile or Plate Between Studs
Introduction
• Existing building techniques :
– SNOT / Schleim
« Studs not on top »
– AZMEP
« Aus zwei mach eins Plättchen »
halfstud offset
– Round 1x1 or Technic Bush between 4 studs
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Tile or Plate Between Studs
Introduction
• Tile or plate placed verticaly between studs :
or, for a good acronym :
Tile or Plate Located between Enough Studs
=> TOPLESs
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Tile or Plate Between Studs
Illustration
P-LESs
T-LESs
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Tile or Plate Between Studs
Illustration
• Appearance in official sets : 311, 609, 613...
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Tile or Plate Between Studs
Examples of simple use
• Coal staithes (Stuart Jones)
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Tile or Plate Between Studs
Examples of simple use
• Fences
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Tile or Plate Between Studs
Examples of simple use
• Ladder
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Tile or Plate Between Studs
First constatations
• Not really solid
• Problem : plates don’t
fit perfectly because of
the studs
P-LESs : space of
– prefer tiles
T-LESs : OK
0.5~1mm
– or use an offset of a half
stud
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Tile or Plate Between Studs
First constatations
• Problem of curve of the
plates
– Important curve for P-LESs
– Slight curve for T-LESs
=> Solution : prefer the tiles,
or thicken the support
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Tile or Plate Between Studs
Examples seen at 1000SteineLand
• Peaks of the cathedral (Juergen et Ingo
Bramigk)
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Tile or Plate Between Studs
Examples seen at 1000SteineLand
• Jambs of windows (Sven Moritz Hein)
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Tile or Plate Between Studs
Examples seen at 1000SteineLand
• Double T beam (Michel Brachmond)
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Tile or Plate Between Studs
A piece of geometry
• Combination with SNOT, use of the ratio 5:2
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Tile or Plate Between Studs
A piece of geometry
Bracket :1/2 plate
1 tile + 1 bracket take place between the 2 parts
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Tile or Plate Between Studs
A piece of geometry
• Application of TOPLESs to a wagon
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Tile or Plate Between Studs
A piece of geometry
• A particular way to fix elements
Problem :
How to fix
the wind-screen ?
Solution :
TOPLESs and a bracket
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Tile or Plate Between Studs
Origin : a footbridge for a train station
• Origin of my work on this building method :
– Reconstitution of a traditionnal footbrige of
french train stations
– Constraints : resemblance with the original, size
of the construction
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Tile or Plate Between Studs
Origin : a footbridge for a train station
• Classic stairs :
•Too big :
14 stairs ->
28 studs
•No space between
the bars of the fence
•Bars too thick
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Tile or Plate Between Studs
Origin : a footbridge for a train station
• Solution : use plates for
thin bars
– How to fix these plates ?
Verticaly between
the studs !
– Avantages :
• we can fix the next stair on
the bar
• we keep a small size
– Drawbacks : fragile !
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Tile or Plate Between Studs
Origin : a footbridge for a train station
• How to consolidate ?
– We have a vertical plate on the middle of a
plate
=> half-plate offset
– Useful bricks : 1x1 with headlight, bracket...
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Tile or Plate Between Studs
Origin : a footbridge for a train station
• The solution :
– headlight + bracket using
SNOT
– repetitive motif
– but not perfect (P-LESs)
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Tile or Plate Between Studs
Origin : a footbridge for a train station
• The solution :
TOPLESs
TOPLESs
SNOT
AZMEP
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Tile or Plate Between Studs
Origin : a footbridge for a train station
• The footbridge
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Tile or Plate Between Studs
Origin : a footbridge for a train station
• Details of the footbridge
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Tile or Plate Between Studs
Conclusion
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Old technique but under-used
Fragile
A good addition to SNOT
A lot of applications
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