Domusolim

Model of a European house of 18-19 centuries.

Silhouettes of window frames are made all at once from one sheet of cardboard. Door silhouettes are imitated in cardboard of another color. In total we cut out 4 blocks of window frame silhouettes.

From the sheet of cardboard we cut and bend 4 walls of the house.

By attaching a block of window frames to the wall, we notice the position of the windows on it. Then add the correction to the width of the frame and mark our own window proies. Then cut window proiments and from the middle of the room stick a block of window frames. Similarly, we come from the door.

The same as in the previous step.

From a sheet of transparent plastic we cut 4 strips in the form of walls and paste them on the block of window frames, thus simulating the glass.

The perimeter of the bottom of the model should be less than the perimeter of the walls literally 0.5 mm, to keep the shape accurate and at the same time not to spread the walls.

On the perimeter, at the very soil, we stick a strip of thick dark cardboard.

From the strips of gray cardboard we cut arched inserts that will strengthen the house and at the same time create an optical illusion of the "living" house.

The light that gets through one window creates light reflections in other windows.

This beam will protect us from the irregular internal deflection of the wall of the house when pasting the roof.

Any defects of straightness of the roof will strongly spoil the impression of the layout. Therefore, under the roof, a structurally strong false roof is glued to the roof, and then the decorative roof is glued to it.

The roof of the house is fastened to the false roof with several drops of glue with minimal effort of pressing. This provides an ideal optical perception of the house, even if the roof is mounted with slight inclination.

For more certainty you can make a corresponding slit in the roof. But then there is a risk of damming the roof at all. Better to just glue on top with a slight press.

In fact, it is not an nessesary design element.

With sufficient sizes of a Christmas tree, the layout may well decorate it.

Night Lviv In the background, houses are about the same historical period as the layout.