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I began designing the house in mid-1991 but had to wait 16-18 months for the planning approval, all the while refining the plans. I was cutting rock all through 1993. Because the arches are not circular, each voussoir  in the arches, windows and door frames has  differing dimensions and had to be numbered and stacked in correct order. You can download the program to calculate the shape of the arches and the angles to cut each voussoir.

Download the program

If you want to use this program you must run Excel (or OpenOffice Calc), go to Tools --> Macro --> Visual Basic Editor --> Run.

I have broken the project up into a number of smaller parts and the completion of each of these has given its own satisfaction. However, many of the techniques I had to formulate without prior experience. With the wisdom of hindsight I could have done some things more effectively.


 



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