Manufacturing and construction of grottoes(caves) is one of our activities when working with artificial stone.
Artificial grotto made of artificial stone, created by our specialists, is original and unique, both in terms of design and imagination of artists, and in style and manner of execution in the material. We create decorative grottoes, stalactite grottoes and caves in interiors and outdoors, in the design of various landscape projects.
Our craftsmen, in the manufacture and decoration of decorative grottoes and caves, can realize any fantasy and any design in stone, by creating a variety of realistic surfaces that imitate rocks, natural rock formations, stone ledges and crevices.
An artificial grotto, a decorative cave can decorate any landscape project and add elements of mystery and mystery to the decoration of the interior of any room. Artificial decorative grottoes- this is a sculptural design and imitation of natural caves, with an unusual decoration of walls and vaulted ceilings with artificial stone. Artificial grottoes, stone grottoes - this is the mystery, fabulousness and mystical beauty of the stone. This is an unusual, complex solution of walls and openings made of stone, wide and unusual in shape of entrances, various volumetric stone passages, rocky crevices, niches, supports, columns and multi-stage staircases.
The unusual ceilings and walls of the grotto made of stone, the versatility of solutions for the ceiling elements of the grotto, deep mystery, inconceivable depressions and multi-level refractions of stone arches of streams, various hanging elements, stalactites and stalagmites, and unusual, multi-style, multi-colored lighting - all this makes the decorative grotto very popular with realization of any artistic project in stone. The combination of daylight and artificial light in the grotto and the variety of color and texture solutions are good and original.
Artificial grotto in the interior and landscape.
Artificial grottoes in nature are widely used in the design of private landscape projects, public garden areas and premises for various purposes. Wherever needed, artificial stone is applicable and irreplaceable. These are zoos, open-air cages, recreation areas, parks of culture, pavilions, entry groups, garden and park areas. Artificial stone mainsail and a decorative cave will become a fashionable decoration for any cafe, restaurant, bar, nightclub, casino, entertainment and shopping center.
Mysteriousness, an intimate atmosphere makes decorative grottoes and caves very popular when decorating various indoor spaces and private estates: basements, billiard rooms, wine cellars, basements, corridors, swimming pools, fireplace rooms, recreation areas, living rooms, garages.
The artificial grotto looks great and is combined with waterfalls and fountains, cascades, decorative trees, rocks, sculptures, bas-reliefs, flowerpots and other decorative elements.
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Making grottoes. Construction of grottoes.
By implementing making artificial grottoes made of concrete, we widely use professional skills and techniques when working with artificial stone. Decorative grotto, which is carried out by our craftsmen, we make on a metal frame, with double reinforcement with a special metal mesh. On which, subsequently, a multi-layer plasticized solution is applied and processed by our artists until the desired shape and texture of the stone is obtained. The use of special compounds, primers, impregnations, dyes, specialized tools and forms, allow us to always achieve the desired result, complete realism and imitation of natural stone, rocks, tree bark.
The extraordinary lightness of the artificial stone, greatly facilitates the device and making an artificial grotto, the installation itself and, if necessary, the transportation of various elements of the composition. Moreover, all materials used to create decorative grottoes are certified, have absolute moisture resistance and fire safety.
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Mountain ranges, mysterious caves and grottoes have always attracted enthusiasts and wildlife lovers. One trouble - often they remained only the subject of a dream, because we do not always have the opportunity to make it come true. Now almost everyone has such an opportunity - to makeartificial rocks from polymer concrete and architectural concrete, alpine slides, compositions of boulders imitating natural stone, waterfalls and other decorative elements allow you to create a corner of wildlife at home or on your personal plot. It's so wonderful to build artificial cave instead of an ordinary hallway, or arrange a winter garden by placing live plants in artificial grottoes by creating a unique interior design for your own home.
Usually, artificial grottoes, caves, waterfalls and other imitation compositions are created from artificial stone, which is made from modern materials such as - architectural concrete or polymer concrete, fiberglass... In its appearance, it does not differ from natural stone, and the strength of artificial rocks and alpine slides is as high as that of natural materials. In addition, artificial caves, rocks and grottoes are easy to keep in perfect order and do not require complex maintenance. If you want, you can change landscape his infield by building artificial rock with waterfall, alpine slide with a decorative pond from fiberglass, not at all fearing the effects of moisture or temperature changes, since this material is resistant to any climatic influences.
The advantage of artificial grottoes and caves, wine cellars, rock structures over stone structures is also that the artificial stone is lighter in weight, and, accordingly, its installation is much easier. In addition, you have the opportunity to move artificial caves and mountains, if necessary, from one place to another, which is impossible without additional costs to do with rocks made of natural stone.
Where are artificial rocks, grottoes and caves used?
Usually artificial grottoes, caves, slides with waterfalls, amphitheaters and other decorative structures are mounted in entertainment and shopping centers, restaurants and cafes, childcare facilities. They are not only an element of decoration, but also create a certain atmosphere, mysterious and enigmatic, therefore, compositions from artificial grottoes and caves, complemented by exotic plants and trees, are often designed in pools and water parks, kindergartens, garden areas and so on. Often manufacturedartificial rocks, artificial grottoes and caves, ponds and waterfalls become part of landscape design on sites of suburban housing, harmoniously fitting into the natural environment, enriching and complementing it with new colors.
The first part is here:
No wonder every self-respecting cave in the world has its own legend or a dozen. Someone has always lived in them or lives to this day, and the locals often see unknown creatures.
Fairy tales?
Perhaps.
Everyone has the right to perceive information from their own level.
Here we will consider several alternative stories with more or less obvious pictures for clarity. In many places, traces of machining are clearly visible, although they are officially considered to be creations of nature.
Let's start with the most famous underground city of the planet Derinkuyu.
A short version of events obtained by colleagues:
There are many tales, stories and legends about other underground inhabitants. As a child, they fascinated me, like many others. And I dreamed of what life could be in a city underground, with numerous passages, tricky transitions between levels, various rooms and dinners in an underground cave.
In my head, pictures replaced one another and it is difficult to say whether it was a fiction or a memory.
There were many underground cities on earth with a huge infrastructure, which made it possible to comfortably accommodate not only thousands of people, but also livestock. The systems of entrances and exits, ventilation, transitions were amazingly thought out.
As an example, I will cite one of the most famous underground cities - Derinkuyu. I decided to make a quick look at it.
A settlement can be seen, which is often raided, and some people decide to create a city underground in order to live a quiet life.
Peaceful people who want to do housework, raise children. They have a culture and different "strata" of society, which get along very peacefully with each other. People are close enough to nature, they have their own customs and rituals.
There was something akin to modern architects, mostly men. They think over the structure of the city, draw diagrams, plan ventilation systems, access to water and "heating".
Everyone is very enthusiastic about the construction, they are participating.
People settle in the city, improve their way of life. The city is becoming full-fledged. Rich culture, traditions, schools,
But the feeling that it all looks like an experiment does not leave. Will they, accustomed to the air and the sun, be able to live in new practically sterile conditions?
It seems to me that going underground, people seem to isolate themselves, bypassing development. It was given to live certain experiences and go through certain lessons, including raids and wars. But people want security, or rather its illusion, because the intended experience still finds them. A raid, some people die, some rush to run.
Later, people still enter the city, but do not live there.
Many surface cave apartments are still inhabited, there are even a few hotels:
If you think that all this was cut out exclusively with picks and shovels, take a look at the traces of obvious machine processing on the walls and ceiling (I admit that this was completed in our time, but it looks too rough, and the awkward round holes would be repaired, since for that matter):
And on this organic performance of the visors below. Obviously, after all, they sculpted in soft rock:
Let's go back underground:
More pictures of Derinkuyu
Something similar in Israel. It's strange that the door is outside, isn't it?
Back to Vietnam
Longyou Grottoes
In 1992, Wu Anai, an incredibly curious resident of the Chinese village of Longyao, raised money with his neighbors to buy a water pump and pump out water from a pond. The pond for the inhabitants of the Longyao village was not only a place for fishing, washing, and other routine household chores, but also the object of mystical stories, because the pond, according to legend, was bottomless. But the fantastic theories did not satisfy Wu Anai, and therefore he decided to completely dry up the pond. As a result, it turned out that it was not a pond at all, but a flooded entrance to an ancient man-made cave.
It is not only the scale of these tunnels and grottoes, which are called Longyou Grottoes, built in 212 BC in Zhejiang province, but also the amazing floor-to-ceiling decoration of evenly spaced 60 degrees of inclined lines. To date, 24 caves have been discovered. All of them were created by human hands. Despite the fact that during the cutting of these grottoes, almost a million cubic meters of stone were removed, there is no historical evidence of these works. Their origin is simply mysticism. There is no explanation for their existence. They are one of the largest man-made caves of antiquity.
The Chinese consider them the Ninth Wonder of the World.
Er Wang Dong Caves, China:
More interesting in China. Dalian Wafangdian region:
Interesting topic with double "eye sockets" from different places:
Food for thought from comments and correspondence:
I dreamed about a tunnel the other day. They dreamed before, the first dreams were, as if I had a tunnel under the sink right in my apartment and we once examined it, it was scary, but interesting. But nothing good was found there. I remember that one of the moves led to the North. Korea) After a while, I dreamed that this tunnel under the sink was sealed. But someone opened it and all sorts of little assholes flooded out of there. But they seem to have coped with them. After that, part of the dreams was that I was going to seal everything, then mines, then underground passages, then wells, and from there everything was climbing. Once you lock me in a tunnel, I came out on the other side and they forced me to remove water from the street during a flood. Then I began to dream that my husband and sometimes I stubbornly dig a tunnel right in our apartment. It was interesting, but I didn't know the goal. But all of these tunnels were shallow, sealed or unfinished. And now the last two dreams, we are already exploring with a group of people or digging huge tunnels.
The first dream I described, there was a mountain with dragons. And the second was dreaming the other day. With the group we dig a tunnel, but this time the tunnel was in space. I remembered this dream very well, many small details, who is in the tunnel, how to get there, how they get to the base, how thoughts work here, I even caught the feeling of a split consciousness, but why they were digging is again incomprehensible. Like a dream with a mountain, the most important thing that is known about the tunnel - what is interesting there, and why it is interesting - never surfaced. Maybe I was a gnome in a past life?)) At least metaphorically, what can tunnels be? I got the idea that they symbolize something like memory. Whether it is real or not. Because in these last two dreams I didn’t go into the tunnels in real time, the travels in them were realized in my memory.
D_A: from a metaphorical point of view, I would say that we are talking about self-examination. perhaps some introspection is needed, especially with regard to the lower aspects. however .... I quote another comment:
The structure of the tunnels was shown today. At first I thought it was underground, like the branches in the subway. Then I realized that it was on thin. Multilevel. With a lot of transitions, branches. Some branches have to be navigated backwards if you are still mortal. There are dead ends - branches formed by the military. They were able to crash into this system at different levels. Moreover, they do not hide it - everywhere there are plates with data from different departments. The military themselves are neutral. They do not even interfere with someone coming in and looking at them. Feeling of bases in standard, non-combat mode. Only the shape was not recognized by me in any way - all have the color of a smoky-light sea wave. And in style - the standards of the uniform of the state army.
All tunnels and movement along them are created to form different scenarios and turns in life. Some tunnels have hidden passages embedded in the middle of one of the walls. Blocked by doors. If you pass by and see a crystal directly mounted on the door, then you can go right through to another branch. There are crystals at different heights in the doors, in different sizes and colors.
In some places, it was seen that those doors with crystals that are in the walls of the tunnel coincide with real doors in different rooms of the physical world. And the real passage through them in physics leads to a change in the entire branch of events that was before. This is neither good nor bad. It should be felt inside - is it worth it at this moment to open this door, or wait a couple of seconds or longer, when the portal closes, and the change will not take place. Here, only an internal indicator should work - a change that will occur, it is interesting to me and for the good, or everything in life will turn upside down.
In a couple of places I saw that the door in the tunnel is the place at the school desk, and the bench by the fountain in some park. But the principle is the same - only the feeling that at a given moment, if I sit in that place, the change I need will take place. Or a sense of threat. Then wait for it to pass.
As I understand it, different people now have the same level of sensitivity in physics that they can recognize these transitions. And for their own purposes, use them to change the sequence of events. And only an internal indicator should be listened to - changes for the "better" or "worse" side. From this, the starting point is to stay here at a given moment, or open the door, or not, and do it later. Because these portals are constantly changing, like the stairs in Harry Potter. For those who do not have this level of sensitivity, this type of portals does not exist for those. And they don't exist for them. There is nothing to do the docking.
D_A: there are different types of tunnels and methods of moving through them. To some extent, the tunnels are fractal similitudes of the space of variants (according to Zeland) and / or branches of reality, and ours is the corresponding one. It is too early to deliberately let everyone go there, and yes, certain codes are needed anyway)
Physical tunnels are copies of those that are on the subtle plane, and there are many more of them on TP, and some of them "float" to physics in order to leave again (synchronization occurs first, and then out of sync with our frequencies). This explains the stories about, for example, how people found the entrance to the cave, and then could not return to it, it seemed to disappear. Or the disappearance of experienced researchers. Or visions of Yeti, snowmen, gnomes, chupacabras, and other unseen creatures. Many of them pass here through the resulting portals in the "anomalous zones"
At all times, caves and grottoes have attracted and attracted the eye with their natural beauty and mystery. Beautiful inland lakes, waterfalls, streams, unique stalactites and stalagmites, unusual vaults and shades of stone are mesmerizing. And all this beauty can be created at home.
In the rapidly changing modern world, it is so nice to be closer to nature, to visit a corner of peace and tranquility. The beauty of nature prompted people to create grottoes and rocks on their territory. Since olden times, architects have created gardens and estates with an unusual relief, with unique natural corners.
We make artificial rocks, caves, grottoes, as well as reservoirs, waterfalls, and artificial ponds, everything that brings the charm of pristine nature to the life of a garden, park, or estate.
The grotto is a shallow cave with a vaulted ceiling and a wide entrance.
An artificial cave is an imitation of a real one, with a repetition of its irregular shapes, a bizarre play of shades of color, stalactites and stalagmites.
An artificial reservoir, a waterfall, a stream - everything that complements and gives originality to the buildings.
Artificial rocks and artificial relief can be created not only in the garden and outdoors, but also indoors to create a special atmosphere, originality, naturalness.
Beautiful inland lakes, unique stalactites and outgrowths, stone vaults attract attention, fascinate and undoubtedly will be remembered for a long time. This extraordinary and at the same time natural beauty can be created both outdoors and indoors.
For private apartments and houses, most often only a part is built - a corner, wall or other waterfall or fountain.
For public premises - restaurants, salons, other establishments - you can create whole walls or rooms, caves with a unique relief and unprecedented beauty.
In the park, in the garden, we make combinations of ponds and stone structures and landscaping, which can perform both decorative functions and serve as a gazebo, dining area or resting place. As a pavilion, the grotto can become a shelter from the heat on summer days, or protect it from precipitation.
The design of the grottoes
To create caves and grottoes, we perform a sketch, visualization, design. At the construction stage, we do earthwork, waterproofing, installation, we connect all the necessary equipment for the arrangement of reservoirs and waterfalls. We use reliable modern equipment and durable high-quality materials to create artificial relief. The material of manufacture depends on the wishes and sizes. Something can be made from artificial materials with a complete imitation of naturalness and originality. Somewhere it is possible to use natural stone from boulders to pebbles.
Create an artificial cave and you will admire its natural beauty, bizarre shapes and play of light for a long time.
The grottoes are decorated with plants, flowers, ponds and waterfalls, as well as garden sculpture and small architectural forms, an alpine slide, outdoor furniture, benches and other attributes for organizing a resting place. The entrance to the grotto can be hidden, for example, closed by thickets of climbing plants or streams of water of a waterfall. Inside the grotto, you can place a fountain, a waterfall, even a pool, as well as sculptures, a bench and a table.
While the use of rocks and grottoes in the interior and landscape is not widespread, which makes it possible to make a non-standard and memorable design. Such buildings will add mystery and enigma to the place, serve as an excellent resting place, and simply please the eye.
Feel the naturalness and harmony of nature nearby!
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Excursions to the most famous places in the world, where there are such formations, provide an opportunity to admire the fantastic beauty of stalactites and stalagmites - stone icicles that naturally grew out of limestone layers; internal lakes, unique outlines of cave vaults. The impressions of staying in these mountainous places encourage you to come back here again and again.
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Why are natural grottoes and artificial caves so attractive? Many myths, legends, beautiful and scary stories and even philosophical treatises tell about the caves. The ancient Greek philosopher, looking at the shadows, at the walls of his secluded cell, pondered the main tenets of his philosophy of the world. Previously, natural niches in the mountain served as a dwelling, a home, sheltered soldiers at a halt. Such relief formations concealed in themselves the unknown, the danger, at the same time frightening and alluring.
For a modern man, a cave, of course, is not a dwelling or a refuge, but rather a subject of exploration, romance and extreme. Speleology studies them to obtain more detailed information about the different stages of the formation of our planet, the formation of the earth's crust. Archaeologists and ethnographers investigate the development of human consciousness and human culture, using the surviving drawings and inscriptions on the inner surfaces of the walls. Rock paintings are one of the first pieces of evidence left by man to his descendants, and their study is a separate area of historical science. So these natural storage facilities not only served as a home for our great-grandfathers, a shelter, but also brought us information about the life of our ancestors.
Article: Artificial rocks as an ancient craft
How often can we afford to make voyages to our favorite places? In our time, the possibilities are not endless. Humanity found a way out long ago - the beauty of natural forests prompted the creation of parks, the fascination with the water surface - artificial reservoirs. An artificial cave in your own estate - why not?
A piece of wild nature will help you switch and take a break from the exhausting rhythms of life, will give you the opportunity to sit by the fire on a rainy day, will provide an opportunity for children's games that awaken imagination and distract from online toys.
For the construction of an artificial grotto, neither rocky terrain, nor huge boulders, nor labor-intensive masonry are needed. The ideal material for creating stone reliefs, identical to natural ones, with all the variety of texture and color, is architectural concrete. Fantastic vaults, bizarre growths in the form of stalactites and stalagmites, forming columns with their natural "irregular" configuration, with subtle color transitions - all this has become real.
Article: Artificial rocks as an ancient craft
Article: Artificial rocks as an ancient craft
Article: Artificial rocks as an ancient craft
Article: Artificial rocks as an ancient craft
Article: Artificial rocks as an ancient craft
Article: Artificial rocks as an ancient craft
The architectural form will be as strong as the real one. Artificial stone made of architectural concrete does not change its qualities at temperature drops from -50 to +50, is resistant to aggressive environmental influences; Its surfaces are easy to clean and non-slip. The natural color is preserved under the influence of sunlight and moisture. High strength, ability to withstand pressure and abrasion guarantees the preservation of its original appearance even when used for active sports games. A return to the world of children's games in the spirit of the adventures of Indiana Jones or the books of Jules Verne is a small part of the possibilities that an artificial cave provides you - an exact copy of the real one.
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