INSOMNIA

I set up a Slack account for Project Soane and so far there are 3 of use exchanging thoughts merrily on the General feed.  Nathalie and Matthew (henceforth Nat & Matt) are young aspiring architects in the UK.  I’ve never met them but they got inspired by Project Soane and enjoy sharing ideas with enthusiastic young people (and older ones for that matter)

I’ve been awake pretty much all night looking into the Privy Council Chamber that Soane designed in the 1820s when he was around the age that I am now, a little older by the time he finished.  Not sure what actually got built, but I do know that it was swept away within a decade or so by further alterations by Barry (the houses of Parliament guy) 

I made this quick model in Family Editor with model lines and a couple of glass extrusions.  It captures the essential geometry, and it was pretty quick to set up.  There’s a groin vault formed where a segmental barrel vault meets another barrel vault based on a partial ellipse.  The…

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