[Attachment(s) from Charmaine Taylor included below]
If you think horizontally…the way adobes are laid rising higher to make a dome then there is a ton of info on this building method.
Also --using a MOLD- metal framed, one foot wide sorta like a rammed earth or stone wall slipform, Ken Kern adapted a moveable mold that moved sideways around in a circle as the wall built up... in the 60's called a Magdiel form- by 2 guys who invented it. you could recreate it easily once seen. or even like a modified RE mold form.
It is an open ended box on one side, you fill with dirt/ sawdust or paper mix, let cure a bit, then slide over and fill again, you use a center pole, and a chain to keep the circle correct, moving ever up and inward.
there is a lot more description in one of his old books..he was actually the first to play with clay and sawdust, paper, cement ion awl mixes, and his last unfinished book was about a "cob" type house made with alt. materials
-- search is name..his daughter still sells his reprint books near Napa CA. Owner Built house was one of the first.. OB Revisited/house of Clay may be the right book.
a LONG article mentions the MAGDIEL form here-
attached is just ONE way to used PC-adobe blocks going vertical..to do the same thing in a dome shape. but domes required good engineering..thankfully lots of info avail on how to.
Charmaine
Charmaine Taylor/Publishing & Elk River Press
PO Box 375 Cutten CA 95534
www.papercrete.com
Charmaine Taylor/Publishing & Elk River Press
PO Box 375 Cutten CA 95534
www.papercrete.com
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