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Cob: House plans/living roofjen walker jwalker at magma.caThu Apr 3 22:36:17 CST 2003
Hello Darel and all, regarding Darel's comments > For the record, my personal preference is that the roof suits the building. Of course a small, round cob place would look gorgeous with a low pitched living roof, probably even a big round place. I love living roofs and have tried to work one into my plans. I'm trying to design a house that'll sleep 4, 2 of which will be teenagers one day and both my hubbie and I work from home. I've got it down to 1400 sq feet, considered a modest size by popular house standards and a low pitched living roof (sure in my personal opinion) doesn't seem to look right, especially on a 2 storey structure. Perhaps I'm not being architecturally creative enough. Not that I'm planning some story book style, wood eating peak either. I've thought about doing a series of perpendicular boards to keep the earth from sliding off a steeper peak as we'd like to live in the roof (i.e. the 2nd storey, coincidentally another pattern...sheltering roof). Any comments on that as an option would be welcomed. I'm not sure if a bigger higher living roof may have some daunting maintenance issues not to mention the structural integrity (i.e. more wood) required to support it plus snow. As for snow loads, where I live the snow can be as high as an elephants eye and folks quite often get up there and shovel it off as the weight of it can threaten the structure underneath. Hence the advantage of a metal roof in a cold, snowy climate. 'Serious Strawbale' was written with Northeners in mind. Jenny Walker
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