I'm limping, but not dead!
From looking at their website and how these things are made, I'd say they would easily support a pc geodesic roof. Of course you'd want to make the walls circular instead of in a square.
A 17'd pc dome weighs over a ton with 3" panels, and a lot more when you add the top coats. If your walls were filled with rock or sand, no compression needed. If filled with dirt, you would want to compress it to avoid settling.
"Normal" geodesics don't fit well on a square, but there are several designs that will let you transit between round and square. The best example would be the patented design by Bob Seidentoph in CO. With some design work just about any geodesic could be modified to have a square base.
Those wire cages aren't anything special, the highway department in TX uses them to build water runoff areas, filled with rock. They don't have the tarp inside, but that isn't needed with the size of rock they use.
My question would be why not just build a dome and be done with it? I have moved way too much dirt and rock by hand in my life, that stuff is heavy! Of course that's more productive than a membership in a gym.
Spaceman
--- In papercreters@yahoogroups.com, "canineaficionado" <canineaficionado@...> wrote:
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> Got an update from Mike about pricing on these units that were discussed under the codes discussion.
> R-House – Standard: £2546.25
> R-House – Summer: £2983.94
> R-House – Winter: £2927.79
>
> Are there any domeheads out there- Spaceman is incommunicado right now. Could you put a geodesic papercrete triangle roof on one these R-houses? How do you put a dome on a square? Is it a poor match because the gabions might settle and crack the roof? The R-House itself is fluid under seismic stresses. Thanks for any input.
> Tina in Colorado
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