Hello from Northern California,
Shane here. Nice to see such interest in papercrete.
Very detailed plans for your dome, Mikey. I hope it goes well. By now I
guess you know about wet papercrete settling and leaving "smile" cracks
through poured walls. Drained and packed p/c is what seems to work best.
I'm very interested in how your pour goes.
I also enjoyed your videos on using p/c to insulate shipping containers.
I'm working on one right now. I'm curious, how are you attaching your
panels to the containers?
I've welded metal strapping at 6 ft height every 4 ft. Drilled and bolted
15 inch x 3/8th all thread sticking out from container wall. Then built
block wall and roof. I'll use a 1 x 4 x 6' board to clamp upper wall to
container.
The final structure will be a studio and installation art piece. A modern
temple to Athena. It will have a cement stucco with faux stone cuts.
Then it will be coated with shredded US currency, pennies and then clear
coated. Columns and statues in front. Will send picture when available.
I'm also working on a tool shed with living roof.
My main project is a two story home I'm finishing. A winter photo is on
Barry's site, livinginpaper.com
Thanks for getting this group together.
cheers,
shane
>
> Since we are still on the topic of papercrete domes and ferrocement I
wanted to share with the group my engineer approved plans. I had hired a
structural engineer to review my 75 square foot
> hermispherical dome. This is a double rebar armature which will have 1'
of papercrete insulation pumped into it. I have posted the stamped plans
as well as my original drawings. Most of the rebar has already been bent
and welded and we will start erecting the structure this week.
>
> Original diagrams:
> http://tinyurl.com/2of8cy
>
> Engineer stamped (6.7MB pdf)
> http://www.screwdecaf.cx/downloads/battery_room.pdf
>
>
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