Hi that real caste in Oregon is a form of ferrocement, my friend
( and Bob Merrill's) is Nolan Scheid, who created it over the last
decade.
there is no papercrete in it, but they did lime plaster the entire
inside of the domes. The house is a thick concrete wall sprayed/ built
on balloon inflated forms, and the turret is the same method. ( huge
Gunnite machines are used)
the turret is a guest bedroom right now.. it is odd to lie down in bed
and look up 20+ feet into the nothingness. later it will have an
elevater up to the guest suite ( to be built?) in future
the interesting news is that Nolan and his family lived in an old
doublewide trailer on the property just 60 feet away ( his wife had
four cute babies) during the 8 year building time!! SHE is the one I
admire..one toilet, a sometimes leaky tailer, and many infants in a
row.. while Nolan pursued his grand vision of living in a castle.
( in the hot hot Eugene summers each year they all moved into the
cooth of the unfinished domes, and got to sleep comfortably, cooking
was done under the still open occulus in the roof, so it was like a
camping adventure for the kids all the time.
here is a pic of the house in the snow from the extra cold winter of
Dec 04
http://www.dirtcheapbuilder.com/hgexhoin.html
Nolan is the one who carries the Tirolessa mortar sprayers (
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