[TheForge] Small shop questions

[Walter L. Mullett]

Andy,

Sounds almost like the stuff Paolo Soleri has been doing at Acrosanti for
40+ years except when they first started, they were mounding up dirt to form
the shell.
http://www.arcosanti.org/project/main.html

And of course that was nothing new either since the Romans were doing it
2,000+/- years ago with their 140' clear span concrete dome at the Pantheon.
(Except the pantheon was not ferro-cement.)
http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Pantheon.html

Walt
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From: Andy Vida <osan at netlabs.net>
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Date: Thursday, August 12, 2004 11:55 AM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Small shop questions


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>
>Peter Fels And Phoebe Palmer wrote:
>>
>> If you aren't restricted by the codes, you can have some real fun
>> building. Thin shell ferrocement allows lots of  freeform freedom and
>> isn't terribly expensive...for example....Pete F
>
> Oh yes.  I went to this alternative housing thingy at OSU
> nearly two years ago and the one method I found most impressive
> was with ferrocement.  A huge bladder was setprecisely on the
> site, covered in rebar, then the cement was pumped onto it and
> screeded flat.  Then the bladder was inflated with air and a
> very large dome erected itself.  The builders wait a while, then
> climb and finish the concrete.  The result was truly beautiful.
>
> They could build such a structure in ONE day if preparations were
> well made.
>
> I also like hay bale construction and adobe.  My father told me
> about the house of the mayor of New White Lake in Hungary.  He
> was there when my great uncle Desmond took over and the outgoing
> mayor threw a celebration for him (gee, I wonder if there might be
> a lesson in there for American politics).  He said the house was
> mud brick with walls two feet thick, and even three in places,
> a thatched roof, and one of the most beautiful houses he'd ever
> seen.  Warm in winter, cool in summer.  Sounds OK to me.
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