Fw: Cob: The roof

[b]

Sorry, I guess the URL I included in the original message on the reciprocal
roof at Pine Manor got mixed up somehow.  This is the correct one.

http://photos.yahoo.com/bc/bolo1942/lst?.dir=/Round+Straw+Bale+with+Reciproc
al+Roof

If it gets cut off in by a return feed in the message, just copy the whole
thing and paste it to your explorer, it should work fine.  Enjoy the
fantastic pictures, especially the new ones of the blue solar mural floor.

Thanks

Preston of the Mojave

----- Original Message -----
From: "b" <bolo1942 at hotmail.com>
To: <coblist at deatech.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 12:51 PM
Subject: Re: Cob: The roof


> Check out a reciprocal roof.  I think it goes well with cob as well as
other
> natural building structures.  There is a series of pictures on a round
> building at Pine Manor Resorts that has a reciprocal roof, as well as
> hydronic dirt floor painted with a fantastic blue mural of the solar
system.

\\ Incorrect URL snipped//

> Click on the 'reciprocal roof' folder.  One of the interesting things
about
> a reciprocal roof is there is very little outward force exerted on the
walls
> if it is done properly as opposed to some other types of round roofs.  It
is
> also an aboriginal type of building technique with a natural feeling that
> goes good with earthen construction.  You can use recycled timbers (as was
> done with this one) small timber in the round cut from the back yard or
> finely milled exotic lumber (gasp!!!).  Browse some of the other folders
> while you are there for the various stages of the building's construction.
>
> The building is located at Pine Manor Retreats, just outside Lake Elsinore
> CA.  There are also two beautiful cob cottages plus some other neat stuff.
> The small cob cottage is in the finishing stage (if there is such a thing
> with cob, heh?) as we speak.
>
> Preston of the Mojave
>
> - Out beyond ideas of wrong doing and right doing, there is a field. I'll
> meet you there - Rumi
>