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[Cob] Cob dome roof?orange_green_peace at hotmail.com orange_green_peace at hotmail.comSun Jul 25 06:23:28 CDT 2010
Hello Damon, you mentioned "a 10 foot circular mud hut with a dome roof (also mud)". I am curious. How would that work? I always thought mud roofs only work in desert climates or similar. Or is there a possibility to make it waterproof? Where I live (northern germany) it rains a lot and it is maritime climate. But there are also very few trees here, so my dream is a small hut that uses earth, straw, probably thatch (it's just a dream... reed thatch is expensive...), other natural materials and a little wood, but as little as possible. This is all theoretical at this time. But I like to think about possibilities and I'd very much like to try something like this as soon as possible. I hope this doesn't sound too stupid, it's just an idea I had. I have no building experience yet, so it might be a very stupid idea. But I find it fascinating, so here it is: A cob dome roof with straw/thatch worked in so that the straw/thatch works like a fur. It is embedded in the cob, but the long ends stick out in many layers (as on a normal thatch roof), making rain water run off and hopefully keeping the cob dry. I hope it's understandable what I mean with this description. Or a slightly different idea would be to fasten the straw/thatch to the cob dome with pieces of wood in about the same way one would normally fasten it to roof timbers. I wonder if anyone has tried/experimented with something like this before? Leona On 23.07.2010 21:33, Damon Howell wrote: [snip] I read this "book" of 105 pages written by Hasan > Fathy named Architecture for the Poor where he writes how unwilling > building officials are to accept that mud can be used to build > beautiful buildings that just isn't possible with conventional > materials. He presents it from the viewpoint of the poor; they are > suffering because they can't afford the type of home the building > forces them to build; concrete. Build a 10 foot circular mud hut with > a dome roof (also mud), he says.[snip]
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