SB: Re: Meeting Hall for el Lupo and Friends

["Robert W. Tom" <archilogic@yahoo.ca>]

Tricky and Ricky;

The thing with flat-roofed kivas and  gers (aka "yurts") is that 
they would likely require the use of trees.  (I didn't find an image
of the kivas of which Rick spoke so I don't know what the stucture
looks like so I'm just ass-u-me-ing that it would require flexural 
members which would most likely have to be trees.

I'm also assuming that the site in Australia is not one where
trees are so abundant that one could justify the use of a lot 
of them to construct a structure that will be used for a week
at most.

I'm also assuming that an enclosed structure is needed so that 
the congregants can be indoors protected from an unrelentingly 
hot outdoors (quite possibly due in part to the landscape being 
devoid of trees ?)  otherwise something like a tent  or marquee
would suffice ?

If all of the above assumptions are accurate, then a flat roof
due to its lack of altitude wouldn't provide sufficient stack effect
to induce the pumping of air through the interior to create the 
sensation of cooling. I'm assuming that installing mechanical 
cooling is not an option that would be considered and that 
a hall full of hot bodies in a hot climate would get old really fast.)

Hence the notion for a dome (truncated cone to be more accurate) 
made of  corbelled bales.

The thought occurred that it might be a nice touch to have the Corroboree
attendees plant a circle of trees ringing the bale dome so that long after 
the dome has returned to the earth, a memory of the dome and the Corroboree 
will remain on the landscape to provide shade and shelter to anyone who happens
upon the site. ( I had considered the idea of a vine-covered trellis as a roof, but 
that to would require lumber and those Aussies would probably spend all their time
trying to make wine out of the grapes .)

A really ambitious and optimistic person might even weave the
trees so that they would grow into a  living dome for future Corroborees
twenty or thirty years in the future.

The "spiral" roof (requiring dead trees) that Trickster speaks of may be a 
"reciprocal roof", something that el Lupo has built a few of in his day 
and possibly even had published in The Last Straw sometime within the
past year. Maybe he has an image of one at his website ?
http://strawbale.archinet.com.au

In any case, since the List seems to be  uh...  listless and sleepy
these days, it might help to get the creative juices flowing if people 
were to toss out some other proposals for el Lupo's Meeting Hall .

PS  I had considered a structure made out of a plentiful Australian 
resource ... empty beer containers.


1/14/02 2:05:58 AM, "Trkstr" <trkstr@hotmail.com> wrote:

>Yes, Kivas are great but I would think a Yurt 

[snip]

 > Or the roof constructed in a spiral.  Its late and I cannot remember what the spiral
>roof construction is called or where the url for that site is.... [snip]


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Rob Tom
Kanata, Ontario, Canada
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