The Cellar - May 3rd, 2017: Building an Ark

There's good news and bad news.
The good news - it doesn't have to float. :)
The bad news - is build it, disassemble, move to cartoon festival, reassemble, disassemble, store for a year, ad infinitum. :(

Length: 16 meter (52ft) X Width: 12 meter (39ft) Floor height: 2.60 meter (8.5ft) Railing height: 3.60 meter (11.8ft)
http://cellar.org/2017/ark1.jpg

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As you can see on the drawings the ark is build up off 20 identical squares. The "knee-braces" on top are very important to give the squares their strength. Without the "knee-braces" the whole square would go sideways when moving it in place. Knowing all this we started building 20 identical squares.

http://cellar.org/2017/ark2.jpg

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The next step was putting up the siding of the ark, on the straight sections this was pretty easy and simple to install. The corners were a pain in the ass!!! To make the corners seem seamless we had to cut and measure every single siding - especially on the first corner when trying to figure out all the bevel cuts, this was a very time consuming task.

http://cellar.org/2017/ark3.jpg

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Materials:
- osb-3 sterling board 244cm(96in) X 59cm(23in), 22mm(0.87in) thickness. About 150 sheets
- douglas beams 90mm(3,54in) X 90mm(3.54in), 510cm(201in) long. About 300 beams
- thermowood sidings
- screws: 6x160, 6x180, 5x90, 4x50, 4x35.
Equipment:
- festool kapex
- 18V impact drivers
- festool ts55r
- minibrat nailgun

Now knock it down, move it, and reassemble.
http://cellar.org/2017/ark4.jpg

Of course reassembled on site it then has to be gussied up.
http://cellar.org/2017/ark5.jpg

They don't say where it was built but it had to be some third world nation seeing all that metric. http://cellar.org/2012/bwekk.gif
The kicker for me was in the comments...

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Cost to build the whole ark was about 16,000 Euro = 18,000 USD. That is including everything: wood, screws, stairs, deckfloor coating. It took us about one and a half months to build it (3 people) in our workshop, then about a week to tear it down and transport, and another 2 weeks to rebuild the ark on site.

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