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A difference from Pouillon was the use of MP stone in a dry-stone (mortar-free) "trilithic," trabeated system. [32] Eventually this building, Perraudin's other MP stone projects, and the architect's hands-on course in stone architecture would inspire renewed interest in massive precut stone construction, with a particular focus on social housing.
Massive precut stone is also known as "prefabricated", or "pre-sized" stone is a modern method of building with load-bearing stone. [22] Precut stone is a DFMA construction method that uses large machine-cut stone blocks with precisely defined dimensions to rapidly assemble buildings in which stone is used as a major or the primary load-bearing ...
Almost 160,000 had been built in the UK by 1948 at a cost of close to £216 million. The largest single prefab estate in Britain [13] was at Belle Vale (South Liverpool), where more than 1,100 were built after World War 2. The estate was demolished in the 1960s amid much controversy as the prefabs were very popular with residents at the time.
"Loren" Iron House, at Old Gippstown in Moe, Australia. Prefabrication has been used since ancient times. For example, it is claimed that the world's oldest known engineered roadway, the Sweet Track constructed in England around 3800 BC, employed prefabricated timber sections brought to the site rather than assembled on-site.
The Carisbrook stone arrangement is a well-preserved Aboriginal stone arrangement in Victoria, Australia. It measures 60 by 5 metres (197 by 16 ft) and is one of only four stone arrangements in the state and the only one of a boomerang design. It is located about 5 km south-east of the town of Carisbrook, on the banks of Tullaroop Creek.
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The General Post Office in Perth. Donnybrook stone is a fine to medium-grained feldspathic and kaolinitic sandstone found near the town of Donnybrook, Western Australia. [1] It originates from the early Cretaceous (144-132 MYA) and features shale partings and colour variations which range from white to beige and pink.
The Paradise Quarry near Saunders Street, Pyrmont Kurnell sandstone cliffs, view towards Pacific Ocean Sydney sandstone, also known as the Hawkesbury sandstone, [1] yellowblock, and yellow gold, [2] is a sedimentary rock named after Sydney, and the Hawkesbury River north of Sydney, where this sandstone is particularly common.