Now, admittedly, when one is planning on recreating a fictional castle using 21st century toy plastic blocks, unassailable realism does not need to be our first concern. Even a 1×3 brick would likely weigh about 500 pounds, so figure a 4-6 man crew working it into place. This was modeled & animated in Blender.more. Cathedral, City, Pyramid, Castle, and Mill were later adapted into. Aberwyvern Castle is a fictitious medieval castle built in 13th century Wales, from the book 'Castle' by David Macaulay. If a cubic meter of rock weighs on the order of 2500kg, each of those innocuous looking 2×4 bricks would be the equivalent of about 1,500 pounds (more or less). Castle (1977), on the construction of Aberwyvern castle, a fictitious but typical. King Edward I has just named the fictitious Kevin le Strange to be the Lord of Aberwyvern-'a rich but rebellious area of Northwest Wales. It would require 49 48×48 baseplates.Įdit (Monday 2/11): could I really use 2×4 bricks? Each of those would represent a near impossibly heavy 2′ wide, by 4′ long, by 1.2′ tall rock. Castle: Revised and in Full Color David Macaulay 4.21 3,941 ratings209 reviews Want to read Buy on Amazon Rate this book Imagine yourself in 13th-century England. In the real world that would be a bit over 8′ square. The outer curtain, for example, is 300′ to a side, 8′ thick and 20′ tall. D2 Castle by David Macaulay (book), Aberwyvern Castle, Wales (building), pp.6465, C2 Castle Dangerous by Sir Walter Scott (novel), Castle Dangerous. This assumes ~50k bricks for the walls and ~25k for the rest of the buildings. Just for fun I’ve been doing some back of the napkin style estimation on what it would take to build the castle featured in “ Castle“, Aberwyvern, in Lego.Īssuming a 1×1 brick is equivalent to 1 sq foot, and that each brick would then be 1.2 foot tall, I’m guessing ~75k bricks.