Nori just mentioned gabions (rubble foundations)- I'd like to throw my
2 cents in here. Mike and I are planning on building our curved wall
retirement home using gabions as the wall system. Hesco makes a
partitioned gabion that is 3 feet wide, one foot of which can hold a
decorative facing material like brick or flat rock. My idea is to fill
the interior portion with river rock and fill the exterior one foot
section with papercrete. (It will have to be lined to keep the
papercrete from flowing through the grid.) That would give us 2 feet of
thermal mass on the inside and one foot of insulation on the outside.
The skill level is very low- a real bonus for us.
This would not appeal to everyone. I LOVE rock- I HATE drywall, so this
is the perfect solution for me. The gabions have some structural
strength to them, plus the rock will add some stability. We'll add a
poured concrete bond beam to the top of the wall. For the foundation,
we might use a frost protected shallow foundation (FPSF) instead of
more gabions. We're still in the first planning stages.
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