Hello Charmaine, Johan Van Tonder here, I would appreciate it if you could E-Mail the books referred to below to dni@absamail.co.za.
Thank you
Johan
From: papercreters@yahoogroups.com [mailto:papercreters@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Charmaine Taylor
Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2012 9:31 PM
To: papercreters@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [papercreters] Vault building--free PDF for construction
Most North Americans go for roofs as separate from the walls, but in M.E. and other countries the adobe vault seems popular. You saw a large pipe uses to form the arch, and I have seen car tires used the same way, and they are easier to pull out when the arch is cured.
Hassan Fathy built the cris cross window building in NM, as shown in that video... you can find a lot of great info about him and his generous life of teaching building . Also look up Laurie Baker, a Brit, who did a lot of building In clay.
also the late Superadobe earth bag inventor --Nader Khalili--started out with arched and dome shapes...and built several in Hesperia CA, and offers classes on that construction. He did a fired clay dome too..and has a book or on building adobe arches.
papercrete blocks don't have the weight of adobe 50+ pounds vs 10 pounds, and during a quake or failure may not damage or kill as heavy adobes can. When the city of Bam collapsed in an earthquake a few years ago the beautiful adobes fell.
I am happy too send anyone interested a couple pdf files..50 page booklets on construction of vaults... you need to be safe and engineer them properly. the fact the papercrete is so much lighter makes me wonder if it is safer to use as the pressure to maintain the vault is the weight of adobes...will pc blocks offer the same strength? anyone built a vault and know?
-- just search the bold words to learn lots more if interested in vaults
Vaulted Dome Roof Project November 4, 2008 — Annesley < same guy who does the clay coated burlap--see link I sent a few days ago
email me for:
Building-VaultsCupolaArch.pdf 51 pages
Charmaine
Charmaine Taylor/Publishing & Elk River Press
PO Box 375 Cutten CA 95534
www.papercrete.com
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