Re: SB: arch vaults?

[Sebastian Gunner <sebg@optushome.com.au>]

on 24/2/01 1:56 PM, lb at lbeaten@pipcom.com wrote:

> Hello 
> 
> I'm new to the list, so if this question has come up already, you'll
> have to forgive me.
> 
> My partner and I are going to build a 1 1/2 storey loadbearing SB house
> and we'd been tossing roofing ideas around when I came across mention of
> this SB arch vault possibility. Has anyone actually built a house using
> this method, and would it work with the abovementioned house design?
> The idea of a house made completely with straw (and plaster) sounds
> great, particularly as we live in a northern climate where the high
> insulation value of straw in the roof (a large surface area in a 1 1/2
> storey) would go a long way toward combatting -30C weather. And of
> course arches are such aesthetically pleasing space shapers.
> 
> I'd be grateful for any help on this.
> 
> 
> Thanks. You're a lively and interesting bunch. It's been fun and
> informative reading.
> 
> Kristina
> 
> P.S.  My partner says that here in Ontario (Canada) there are at least
> minus thirty reasons for not building in adobe. Indeed.
> 
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