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Bricks: about 100000 kiln-fired bricks are used to
realize the entire Aulic Complex, manually pasted and modeled
trough a specific tool handycraft specifically constructed.
The bricks done with a clay paste, after the air drying
has benn pre-baking in a furnace up to 100 degrees for three
hours and then cooked with a temperautre of 900 degrees.
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Pentagonal tiles in copper: For the realization of
the roofs for the two Garove's pavillions, the Clock Tower
and a part of the S.Uberto Church it has been used 13000
pentagonal tiles in leaf copper. These tiles, some in shining
copper and some in passived copper, has been completely
reproduced by hands, as for the tiles called "coppi",
working a copper plate cutting, breaking and then modeling
them with a needle-nose pliers.
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Special tiles (Coppi): For the complex covering
it has been used 70000 special tiles (Coppi), sliced
by a plate, first in strip then cutted and modeled in
the final form. For this operation it has been used
a pedal balance with a tip inserted in a specific mould.
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Windows: the 1500 windows has been realized in some
parts by hands and in some parts cutted with an automatic
punching machine, and then finalized by hands with a file
to round off the corner. It is necessary to highlight the
particular shape of the "Scuderie" windows that
are internally oriented (like vasistas) because it was not
possible to mantain the animal in a close environment.
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Clay decoration under the windows:
there are 4500 decorations that are together by three elements
for each ornament.
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Gutters and Pluvials: the gutters and the pluvials
that are taking the water coming from the roof of the complex
are done in copper and the number is 182. They are fixed
to the wall whit copper tongs and trough some stirrups.
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Dormers: the dormers are 66, some in wood and some
in clay composed by 12 parts sticked together.
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Cornices: are in fired-brick. The wire-drawing machine
which is used to make the bricks, was build by Costantini
himself.
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Clay and wood pilasters: the pilasters are 478 and
done entirely by hands and are inserted in different fronts
and corners of different buildings.
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Marble and wood obelisks: there
are 43 obelisks, engrared by a singol part of marble or
woods, where the peak sphere is tablet.
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Doors and little main entrance: the complex doors
and the main entrance are 50. They are realized with walnet
parts handly made and with the insertion of little nails
to give a special effect. The related handle has been done
pushing and modeling the head of an iron nail sticked in
the right position.
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Lose (stone slabs): "Losa" is a special
word given by the Piedmont language, that mean a stone slabs,
flat and thin. The "Lose" has been used for terraces,
balconies, walking areas, threshold and windows ill, and
they are manually cutted trough a diamond disk and the number
is 7000.
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Little balaustrades in wood: the wood columns that
are boundaring the terraces and the balconies are 5000 and
they have been created using the head of the Chineese small
thick used for the eating.
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Columns in wood and brass: the columns are 174 and
has been built with a lathe, using a olive tree wood and
brass round bar trough eye working. All the columns of the
Diana Palace are done with the wood and normally finalized
with a lathe.
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Telescopical revolving standard: This was invented
and constructed by Costantini himself in order to work more
easily around the model of the S.Uberto Church.
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Glue: 61Kg of glue for buildings has been used to
assembly the briks, the windows, the parquets, and 15Kg
of Vinavil has been used for the tiles and the courtyard
floors.
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Woods parquets: for the planimetry
of the historical center of Venaria and in other rooms of
the complex it has been used 12000 plugs coming from walnut
and larch.
