[Cob] Small houses

[David Knowlton]

oooooo neato. human power is cool.

simple pauls could be put in the shaft - like the clicks you hear when you 
ride a
roller coaster. they could be on a lever - so you can get back down.


>From: "Yun Que" <yunk88 at hotmail.com>
>To: coblist at deatech.com
>Subject: RE: [Cob] Small houses
>Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2004 09:34:45 -0500
>
>
>    Cat here, I have been looking at layouts for 8 sided houses and they
>    are very spacious, the largest being about 70' accross.  The beauty of
>    some of them is that a central stair acts as an air shaft to keep the
>    house fresh and the sq ft roof and foundation are less than in a
>    conventional.  This saves time, materials.  Also look at the Japanese
>    traditional homes built before the turn of the century, simplicity,
>    calm and outstanding organization for storage.
>
>    Took a ride the other day in a 100 year old hand operated
>    elevator!!!!  one hops on and pulls a rope, they are no more
>    complicated than a dumb waiter only the wheels and gears are larger.
>    The builder was realy thinking!! the walls of the shaft were all
>    shelves!  The occupents used the space to store there pantry goods.
>    All very accessable with the pull of a rope, sooooo sweet.  (there was
>    not much in the way of saftey mesures, but I'm sure a little inovation
>    could correct that.  Another plus is that it takes less room than a
>    stair case.  The counter weights made it easy to move and if my
>    perceptions were working it took the same amount of time to rise from
>    one floor to the next as going up stairs.  My favorite though is the
>    simpicity of moving stuff. Big stuff like dressers and such!
>
>    The construction was 11" x 11" timbers and it went up 4  14" floors
>    smooth as silk.  A central elevator shaft could support floor joists
>    and roof beams, dug into a well foundation it could house heating and
>    cooling shaft, as well as that crazy storage!!!!  I loved it gotta
>    have one!!!! :)
>    for the good of all C.
>    >From: "Shannon C. Dealy" >Reply-To: dealy at deatech.com >To:
>    coblist at deatech.com >Subject: [Cob] Small houses >Date: Mon, 1 Mar
>    2004 20:35:35 -0800 (PST) > >On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Mary Hooper wrote: >
>    >[snip] > > While a cob house requires "downsizing," I still think it
>    should be a home > > and not a magazine picture. If anyone has ideas
>    to share on the subject of > > what is enough simplicity and how real
>    people should fit into their > > handbuilt homes, I'd like to hear
>    from you off line if you/shannon thinks > > this is not on topic.
>    mjhooperNOSPAM at trccomputing.com (take out the nospam) >[snip] > >I
>    don't have a problem with some discussion of small houses
>    (particularly >if they are Cob), so long as we don't go overboard and
>    turn the list into >the "small house" list. This is particularly
>    relevant for Cob, since it >is alot of work to build, so it makes
>    sense to start small when building >with it. > >If you like small, my
>    cob house has 70 square feet plus a loft, >squeezing it into the 120
>    sq. ft. exterior footprint and 10 feet above >grade maximum height
>    didn't leave alot of options :-) > >Shannon C. Dealy | DeaTech
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