[Greenbuilding] Building by Intelligent Rearrangement - an idea

[Chris Green]

chiarenzaantonio at netscape.net wrote:
>
> but of course after having those inventory transponders,
> or bar-codes if you want to be low tech, attached to each stone in a way
> that they neither fall off nor damage the stones--but also scans of each
> prepped project site so that the plan can follow all the real dips and
> curves.
>   
I suspect you would also have to have some marks on the stone to show 
which way is up, the back side, and the face...and perhaps the final 
computer printout(s) will have to indicate the angle the verticle axis 
should be to best fit with the stones above it.

Sounds like a lot of challenges are ahead of you to make this work, but 
as an exercise in programming and technological adaption, it might be 
interesting to attempt just to see if it will work. Some researchers are 
using laser scanners to build virtual 3D models of, for instance, old 
roman statues and whatever. Creating a virtual model of a wall stone 
should be no different, but accessing the technology for field work 
(literally) might be a big hurdle.

One never knows, there might be some other application this set  up can 
be used for.

For whatever it's worth,  I recall reading in Fine Homebuilding's book 
"On Masonry"  that two experienced masons can build, iirc, a 60x 40 
slip-form stone basement in 60 days. If the wall is 8 feet high by 1 
foot thick then that is 1,600 cubic feet, or about 60 cubic yards. 
That's a production rate of 1/2 cubic yards per day per worker.
Rookies and overly fussy people ( like I can often be ) will take 
longer, of course.

Chris Green.