Hi Jan,
Hey! It's kinda fun when a thread from over 7 months ago springs
back to life. hehehe. Reading the old archived messages is a great
way to learn a lot about papercrete.
The superinsulated structure IDEA is alive and well and constantly
being improved (thanks in no small part to the many excellent
discussions on this group). Unfortuneatly life has intervened and
slowed my timeline drastically. I also started spending a huge
amount of time helping with an online project that I didn't plan for.
(I wonder what that project could be?) I'm not complaining. It was
my choice, and it's all been worth it.
I haven't acquired my LAND yet. (Details, they'll get you every
time!) Sadly the plot I was considering purchasing is looking more
and more like it won't happen. The county's bean counters are
balking at my plans. I can't understand why. One of them is a local
real estate agent, (she won't make any commission on the sale of this
particular property), another owns a lumber yard (he seems horrified
that someone might start a trend of building things without much
lumber), and lastly the local furnace/ac guy (he sees the
superinsulation and solar and knows he won't play much of a role in
the project.) Oh nieve little ol' me. I've learned a lot in the
process though. I'm not out any significant money. My next
proposal, wherever I make it, will factor in the motives of those
making the decisions. That doesn't mean I'm changing the nature of
the structure I want to build, just the way I present it to the
authorities.
Venturi pipes are a neat idea that certainly have their place, but I
don't know if I'll go that direction. Those kinds of details seem to
be best decided once the building site is determined. At this point
I don't think of having a full house design plan, just a design
philosophy. I want to be free to adapt and incorporate what makes
sense for whatever site I land on.
Live and learn.
--- In papercreters@yahoogroups.com, "a.j. welmers" <awsaua@...>
wrote:
>
> How are you doing with the idea about the use of ultra thick walls
in
> a home?
> I am asking this as I am wondering if it possible to get away from
the
> traditional way of building a ouse in a way that the traditional
> building materials are replaced with papercrete.
> What I have learned about our ancesters that lived in caves, that
they
> had there summer and winter quarters. "No window problems in that
time".
> In the winter they went deeper into their caves especially during
the
> night and harsh daytime. This brings me to the idea to design a
house
> in a way that there are spheres for different activities and
climate
> circumstances. I was thinking about spaces laid out in concentric
> circles where the inner spaces are the more private and protected
> environments with smaller windows and openings that are surrounded
by
> outerspaces with more windows and light. Looking outside from an
> innerspace does not need a glass window anymore as you can use a cam
> with a tv screen. Daylight can be brought in from small sunpipes in
> the roof and ventilation can be handled by the use of the natural
flow
> of air through venturi pipes, that can be closed and opend as
needed.
> I do not know if this line of rethinking the living space is
> significant for youe project?
> Hope to hear about this from you.
> grtn Jan
>
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