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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.
