so for today a follow up,
how to build a sand castle, advice is the best way to start so pick a well known architect who has actually built something and ask him,
say Renzo Piano who is the architect who designed London's
famous Shard, His
children range in age from 16 to 50, so he's been building sandcastles for a
long, long time, He has put his skills to work to build sandcastles that are
simple in outer form, but structurally ideal, so
here are his tips,
1 Be clear about the fact that building a
sandcastle is a totally useless operation. Don’t expect too much; it’s going to
disappear, mainly because there’s no point making the castle too far away from
the sea. A sandcastle’s relationship to water is more important than its
appearance. Study the waves, then decide where to position your castle – too
low on the shoreline and the sea will immediately destroy it, too high and you
have no waves to flirt with. It sounds complicated but it’s simple and
instinctive.
2 Start to dig a ditch where the waves have made
the sand wet. Use your hands. Build the sand up to create the mass of the
castle, which is really a little mountain with an incline of, ideally, 45°. You
don’t need the ditch to be more than 30cm deep and 45cm wide, and the castle
should be about 60cm tall.
3 Make an entrance in the ditch for the sea to
enter. The magic moment is when the waves come and the ditch becomes a moat. If
the castle is in a good position, you can watch the water ebbing and flowing
for 10 or 15 minutes. To capture the image in your memory quickly, close your
eyes when the water comes in.
4 Then put a little flag or anything else you
can find on the sandcastle, just to make it visible to people running on the
beach. Go home and don’t look back.
and there was me thinking that making a sand castle was so
simple.
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