{"id":2834,"date":"2015-06-20T16:32:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-20T16:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/memetechnology.org\/?p=3343"},"modified":"2015-06-20T16:32:00","modified_gmt":"2015-06-20T16:32:00","slug":"the-magazzini-realised-buildyourownportus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/archaeology\/2015\/06\/20\/the-magazzini-realised-buildyourownportus\/","title":{"rendered":"The Magazzini Realised #buildyourownportus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I got the Lego bricks <a href=\"http:\/\/memetechnology.org\/2015\/06\/12\/the-magazzini-simplified-buildyourownportus\/\">I&#8217;d ordered last week<\/a>. So I set about building, to see if I&#8217;d got my LDD (<a href=\"http:\/\/ldd.lego.com\/en-gb\/\">Lego Digital Designer<\/a>) design right. After I&#8217;d ordered them, I&#8217;d already spotted a few bricks I hadn&#8217;t put into the LLD model, and thus weren&#8217;t on my order list. But I was disappointed to that there were a a number of pieces &#8211; the corner tiles, the 1&#215;4 bricks &#8211; that I&#8217;d entirely missed when I\u00a0was ordering.<\/p>\n<p>So I had to raid my boys collection &#8211; luckily he had plenty of the right sort of bricks, plus some others (tiles especially) that weren&#8217;t available from Lego&#8217;s brick order service. so what I&#8217;ve ended up with isn&#8217;t exactly the model I designed.<\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/memetechnology.org\/2015\/06\/20\/the-magazzini-realised-buildyourownportus\/#gallery-3343-1-slideshow\">Click to view slideshow.<\/a>\n<p>In the building of it, I discovered weaknesses in the construction &#8211; for example, the solid wall can be pushed down off the model too easily when fixing the upper story onto the ground floor. But of course, the advantage of work with your hands, building with bricks instead of of\u00a0bits, is that structural improvements are somehow more immediately apparent. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.psychologicalscience.org\/journals\/pspi\/PSPI_9_3.pdf\">concept of learning styles has been pretty effectively debunked<\/a> over the last few years, but there does remain the idea that you can learn about different things in different ways. My hands could &#8220;see&#8221; the model better than my eyes looking at the computer model.<\/p>\n<p>One thing I wanted to check that I&#8217;d found very difficult to measure was the height of the two units stacked on top of each other. The archaeological evidence suggests the brick walls of the building were 11 metres high (the roof of course was higher still). Using my rudimentary 1 stud = 1 metre scale, my model should stand 11 studs high. Measuring\u00a0height is very difficult in LDD, because one standard brick is more than one stud high, and especially because the LLD environment does not come with a vertical scale. Comparing my model with other CAD models of the building, it looks shorter, more squat, less elegant than the CAD ones. However, I was please to see that, when measured with a twelve stud tile, my physical model is just about eleven studs high.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/memetechnology.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/06\/img_6051.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3339\" src=\"https:\/\/memetechnology.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/06\/img_6051.jpg?w=300&#038;h=300\" alt=\"IMG_6051\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;m going to deconstruct the model and rebuild it, physically and in LDD, with the bricks beside my screen. My aim is to make it stronger, and use less bricks. I&#8217;m not sure we are going to be able to build an entire model during the Festival of Archaeology (especially at standard list prices), but I still want to build the most efficient, model I can.<\/p>\n<p>Which I&#8217;m sure was the aim of the Roman builders of the Grandi Magazzini, nigh-on a couple of decades ago.<\/p><br \/>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/memetechnology.wordpress.com\/3343\/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/memetechnology.wordpress.com\/3343\/\" \/><\/a> <img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.wp.com\/b.gif?host=memetechnology.org&#038;blog=43249545&amp;%23038;post=3343&amp;%23038;subd=memetechnology&amp;%23038;ref=&amp;%23038;feed=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I got the Lego bricks I&rsquo;d ordered last week. So I set about building, to see if I&rsquo;d got my LDD (Lego Digital Designer) design right. After I&rsquo;d ordered them, I&rsquo;d already spotted a few bricks I hadn&rsquo;t put &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/memetechnology.org\/2015\/06\/20\/the-magazzini-realised-buildyourownportus\/\">Continue reading <span>&rarr;<\/span><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.wp.com\/b.gif?host=memetechnology.org&amp;blog=43249545&amp;post=3343&amp;subd=memetechnology&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":337,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[84,916,652,848],"class_list":["post-2834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-archeology","tag-lego","tag-portus-project","tag-uncategorized","column","threecol"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Magazzini Realised #buildyourownportus - Archaeology Blogs<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/archaeology\/2015\/06\/20\/the-magazzini-realised-buildyourownportus\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Magazzini Realised #buildyourownportus - Archaeology Blogs\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Yesterday, I got the Lego bricks I&rsquo;d ordered last week. 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