La Boheme - 2 in 1

The La Boheme project consisted of 2 big set buildings, and the one our group worked on was supposed to have a sort of cottage walk-in (which originally was going to be used as a border policeman's office (?) ) while the back of it all was a store front.

Now, this is the first time I got to work on actual construction as a first-year. And I was primarily tasked to figure out how the huge back wall was going to work.

We began melding a metal skeleton, which was way more trouble than it was worth.
After a lot of sawing, melding, kicking, frustrated grunts
and adding some improvised hinges so it'd connect easier with the other walls, the metal wall frames were raised and drilled to a platform with wheels.

The platform was first secured with big pieces of lumber fastened to the workspace floor and we began setting the plywood.

Even more frustrated grunts. This is the part we learned about the different kinds of saws we had.

Granted, it was harder nailing in the plywood to the back wall because a portion of it was left open at the bottom for some windows to go in later.

Additionally, since the back wall was divided in 2 big parts, it had to be lowered down at a later point and added a few extra bits. Notably an extra long piece at the front to connect with the roof and a protrusion that...I wish I knew what to call.

Le whachamacallit

For the protrusion there were made several support beams that were later nailed and covered up by their complimentary plywood pieces.

Having managed all that, we began work on some front windows, the roof and, finally, the actual coating to make the ''house'' look more like stone. Although first we had to mix the actual hue the customer requested.

Roof in progress

After messing around with one too many buckets of tinted gypsum, the coating was finally done and all that was left was to slap on some color and fix up the interior.

Completed back wall

Interior