Defying gravity, Brick vaulted dome ceiling, built free standing without supports/formwork

Domed vault, unsupported masonry, Brick, Brickwork, Dome, Catalan vault, unsupported masonry. I built these two buildings in my garden. The Hobbit house with semicircular domed ceiling and pizza oven inside; and the gallery with a Catalan styled brick vault. Both vaults are built without formwork or any supports. They are both built with Hot mixed lime mortar. There is no cement.

[@rsridhar63]

Beautiful!

[@frankartusa2236]

Amazing work. I could watch it at regular speed with a glass of wine.

[@chrisrpennock1593]

Thank you. Come on over. We can have a glass each

[@althetrowel]

Amazing , incredible and beautiful. Class act👏

[@SNWEC]

You are an inspiration- you must've taken a great deal of care with layout- I'd love to learn from you- this is absolutely stellar work! 👏 Bravo Sir

[@chrisrpennock1593]

Wow, thank you!

[@chrisrpennock1593]

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[@JonathanTor-k2x]

What type of mortar is used and ratios.

[@cormacman1]

Hey Chris what music did u use on the video ?

[@DeathMonky22]

amazing work lad, truly beautiful work!

[@kishanchandsagar614]

Excellent Work

[@talarico1968]

Cheers Chris 🧱❤️😎

[@chrisrpennock1593]

Finally got it done Paul

[@chrisrpennock1593]

Thanks mate

[@oldcarpenter2372]

I am fascinated by your work. It is beautiful and amazing!
I wish you would share details and techniques you used.
What type of strucure is above the brickwork?

[@Sugiyanto-oo1ps]

Hi sir, how to make hot mix lime mortar?
composition & proportion please

[@brickbybric]

Saw the link on Andy’s ,bricklayers world wide Chanel . Top class work easily as good as the Mexican ones on here . The artist working in that studio only has to look up for inspiration. How many bricks approximately went in to it.

[@bricklayersworldwithandy6277]

Which vid was it on? I can't find the post now.

[@brickbybric]

It disappeared Andy. The link was in your latest video . I went back in to find it last night and it was gone . I found the video in my history I had clicked on the link when the chap first left it.

[@bricklayersworldwithandy6277]

@@brickbybric Thought so, youtube don't even like links from another TH-cam channel.

[@chrisrpennock1593]

Thank you, I built this in our garden as a Gallery for my wife who is an ameteur artist. There are 8.5 Tonnes of bricks and it is all built with lime mortar, NO CEMENT.

[@chrisrpennock1593]

I dont understand, I thought my video was available to everyone public. Thanks for trying to find it again

[@WestCliffSkater]

It sure looked like the last of the roof getting close to horizontal needed some support?

[@chrisrpennock1593]

There was no support for the entire build. The building is 6x6m and has a span of 8.4m. The bricks alone weigh in total 8.5 tonnes. It is built with hot mixed lime mortar (no cement)

[@Blspeek-ag]

@@chrisrpennock1593i have seen cement is being used in this type of doom cellings here in rajasthan,india. The roofs are called rohtak dome roof