While progress continues all around the site, one topic that’s been getting a huge amount of attention lately has been the wiring plan and the audio eQuipment Room (which we call the QR). Here is an overview (literally) of the QR:
Here’s what it looks like down on earth:
The Loggia is getting close to being another finished part of the construction project. Here we see the rebar and steel screens laid on top of foam that will insulate our slab from the geothermal sink known to most as Earth:
Here’s a detail of a corner of what will become the slab. Note that the slab is reinforced in 3 dimensions, as it should be:
I have moved my blog over to WordPress.com. It’s not that I didn’t like the previous hosting service, but they sent me a note saying they’d no longer be responsible for providing free WordPress.org hosting, and I could not be bothered to fight with them about that.
The transition has not been perfect. I started off doing something incredibly bone-headed, which made it impossible for me to export my blog. I then fixed that, but then other problems made the imports not work as expected (or not work at all). The WordPress.com support team were responsive, and after several iterations, they were able to import my 199 posts and have all my images hosted on their site. That’s the good news. The bad news is that all of my photos have been renamed slightly, which means that any references out there on the web are likely to wind up with Error 404, until they can be fixed to point to the right places.
That is indeed a bummer. But I that’s about as good as it’s going to get, I’m afraid.
I will miss the direct SQL access I had from my own hosting service, but I would miss even more not being able to post any new blog entries.
The concrete Annex floor was poured, tooled, and sealed this week. The results speak for themselves:
This finished surface will forever reflect the underlying logic of the design. The look is richly organic:
As I explained in last week’s update, the angles in any control room are unlike any angles one expects to find in normal framing carpentry. And our Control Room design has more interesting angles than most. This week we established the endpoints of the most unique framing in the project, the intersection of a sloped front wall meeting angled side walls that both intersect a ceiling that is itself both pitched and rotated. There is no steel square in the world that tells you how to measure or make those cuts. In fact, even locating where in space these different planes all intersect is a math problem unto itself. Here is the solution given in wood:
To learn how we figured this out (and about more construction progress), read on…
Progress framing the Control Room continues apace. We started here:
And by the end of the week, we wound up here:
I don’t even know where to begin describing all the many details visible in this view, but I’ll try…
Three years ago I decided to embark on my first from-the-ground-up construction project: an ideal space for recording, mixing, producing, and experiencing music. This is what the space looked like at about that time:
Two years ago, the Control Room was just an outline of some concrete blocks surrounding some dirt and conduits:
One year ago the Control Room remained a concrete outline while the East and West walls of the Music Room rose to the 14th course:
Six months ago the Control Room masonry was finished:
Three months ago the Control Room rafters were placed:
This month—this week—the framing of the Control Room finally began!
With so much preparation and anticipation, you can be sure we want to do it right! We are off to a very good start…
Last week we saw the placement of the Loggia Roof rafters. This week the rafters were sheathed with plywood and the roof framing was finished, including the extensive and finely finished soffit lookouts. Here we are midway through the sheathing process:
And even closer to half-way, the sheathing is trimmed flush to the ridge beam:
The last piece of the roof framing puzzle is now falling into place, with the last steel framing members making their way across the Loggia Columns:
It won’t be long before the other framing members are placed and that last remaining part of the roof is sheathed and shingled!
We had a gorgeous week weather-wise, and progress has continued across all aspects of the project. The following photo of our radiant heating manifold shows why I’m choosing to highlight the Utility Room progress this week:
Here is that manifold in a bit more context:
Manifold Recording / The Miraverse 
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