Meghan Cunningham

Building Temple I

fanfare.stmaurice.ch 

Temple I

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Tikal

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Tools Used

Personal photo

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154ft x 121ft

Square base

1.1:1

1ft x 1ft x 3ft

Size

Personal picture

1,000 workers

Worked 6 hours/day

90 good work days/year

Workers

16,680 blocks

3.2 years

Quarrying Blocks

50,000m3 of fill

0.64 years for fill

Quarrying Fill

885ft from quarry site

0.4167 m3 /day

1.7 days

Transport of Material

3.2m2 of blocks placed/day

74,500m2 used

About 1 month

Placement of Blocks

Personal photo

5,000m3 carefully placed fill

4.8m3 placed/day

About 1 day

Other fill: < 1 day

Placement of Fill

12 years to create plaster

2 weeks to apply

Plastering and Painting

Personal photo

Quarrying: 3.84 years

Transport: 1.7 years

Construction: 0.27 years

Plastering/Painting: 12.1 years

Total: 17.9 years

Totals

Power is “the ability to channel the behavior of others in the absence of the use or threat of use of sanctions.”

Power= control of materials

Power

Unity