[Portuguese in India] Goa 1510 WIP (Update August 2021)

[Atheling]

Vraiment, je suis bluffé, là... 

C'mon Arthur..... don't leave the linguistically challenged among us in suspense

[Arthur]

It goes like this : after pretending to praise him in English, I thoroughly insulted him in a foreign language, cursed him, belittled his manhood and smeared his family's good name over at least ten generations.

All in five words : that's how good I am 

[Furt]

What an amazing project. Your buildings are truly works of art!

May I ask what are the round towers made of and how do you get the clay stick to it?

[Atheling]

It goes like this : after pretending to praise him in English, I thoroughly insulted him in a foreign language, cursed him, belittled his manhood and smeared his family's good name over at least ten generations.

All in five words : that's how good I am 

  I bet you said something very sweet really 

[Byblos]

What an amazing project. Your buildings are truly works of art!

May I ask what are the round towers made of and how do you get the clay stick to it?

Hello !

the tower is made of cardboard: I draw vertical lines of 1 cm wide, then I cut the first layer of cardboard with the cutter and partly the foam (I leave the second layer of cardboard intact) that allows me thus forming a cylinder, the length of the sheet of cardboard defines the diameter of the cylinder.

I then use hardening modeling clay to cover everything, that I wet slightly what makes it sticky and can better shape it!

Thank you all for your encouragements !

(Even Arthur who has cursed my name for 10 generations! It's not beautiful jealousy!  )

[Atheling]

Hi Byblos,

When you say "cutter" do you have a special tool you use other than a sharp knife?

I'm thinking specifically for curves etc.

[Byblos]

To simply cut a thin layer of cardboard, a basic cutter is enough, on the other hand when I have to cut a thickness of cardboard, or in a relatively thick cardboard (1 mm) cut more complex elements like a window with X panels, there I use a cutter of model, with us it is called a scalpel, and as a rule new blade!

[Atheling]

Right, so a scalpel or modelling knife.

I thought you might have some kind of special tool to cut curves.

I'm sure that I have seen such a device but I'm not at all sure. I might be thinking of a drawing device?

Or I might have dreamt it!! 

[Byblos]

Hi all !

The next step !

A merchant's house (in short a mini palace)

The beginnings :








The result :

























So for this house we have, on the ground floor: a hallway, which is also the kitchen and the room where the servants work (the floor is made of clay and there will be an oven) and a large room for the masters (the ground will be raised and in wood planking). There is a door to the street and another to the courtyard. The upper floor is composed of a vestibule, a small private living room (with moucharabieh) and a bedroom which will be separated by a wooden partition. the bedroom opens onto a balcony. The vestibule overlooks a staircase which descends into the courtyard. the courtyard opens onto a small enclosed garden (there will be 2 trees and flowers) which overlooks the market square, opposite the mosque and near the Pas de Banastri Gate. The trick is that the servants go through the entrance overlooking the main street while the distinguished visitors and the masters go through the garden and access directly to the masters' apartments via the staircase from the courtyard.

I still have to arrange the courtyard and the garden, as well as the painting and the accessorization of course.

I revised the plan of Goa by enlarging the surface of the city a little: I thus pass from 3 "blocks" of dwellings to 6. This house of merchant constitutes a block in itself. There will be in the North the main street (of the palace) which also gives on the River gate and the Port gate, in the West the garden will open on the Market Place and the Mosquee, in the East will be joined a 2nd merchant house which will be smaller and will have the distinction of having a warehouse on the ground floor which will have 2 doors: one in the North (will open on the River gate and the Port gate) and one in the South which will open on an alley behind these 2 merchant houses which will provide access to the Adil Shah palace via a postern that visitors and goods can discreetly borrow. This alley will be overlooked by the keep flanking the Pas de Banastri gate.

(I will put a plan to you later).

There will be 4 other blocks of dwellings: a shopping street (with 2 or 3 shops and small dwellings), 2 blocks of dwellings and a block that will have the distinction of being attached to the 2nd keep of the city (which will flank the Port gate) and will have a business and a home that will be "one" with the keep.

There will undoubtedly be a division into districts and "Quarter's doors".

There will of course also be the Palace of Adil Shah (already well advanced) and stables (for horses and elephants). The Port gate will open onto a commercial port / shipyard protected on the river side by a redoubt and artillery, and barracks will be built against the wall. In the South, I plan to make a suburb along the wall.

To be continued ...

[Paul Richardson]

Absolutely stunning.

[DintheDin]

Awesome! You make a very elaborate work! The windows, the balconies and all are coming out very nice and very convincing!

[Ray Rivers]

 

Wow!

 

[Captain Blood]

Well that is a construction of great beauty. Bravo! 

[Codsticker]

Incredible work- really fantastic detailing.

[marianas_gamer]

A Masterwork!!
LB