SB: Re: Meeting Hall for el Lupo and Friends

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

1/14/02 12:35:00 PM, "John Swearingen" <john@skillful-means.com> wrote:

>Beer bottles have been  investigated and sucessfully used as a building
>material.  I'm told that Mr. Heiniken himself, upon noting the abundance of
>beer and the paucity of good housing in the Dutch Carribean, sponsored such
>research and sucessfully, I'm told, devised some workable plans. He also
>considered altering the shape of his bottles to make them more suitable for
>building.

And interestingly enough, in one of the bird course electives that we were 
required to take when in architecture school, one of the assignments was
to develop bottle designs for Alfred Heiniken's (sp?)  idea of utilising the 
discarded empties as a modular building material.

Most of the archistudents developed intricate blockish designs which included 
ingenious interlocking nooks and crannies intended to make the stacked units 
more stable but I suspect would have been a bottlemaker's nightmare.

Me ?  I did a minimal-effort design (so that I could get back to the Real design 
studio work) and suggested a bottle shape based on the stryofoam coffee cup
which as everyone has seen I'm sure, stacks nicely into "logs".

The beer bottle logs would be used in the same manner as wood logs, stacked up
like log cabin logs , or stood up in a pallisade arrangement or stacked in a stackwall 
arrangement of short logs.

The lids  would of course, be round  disks of metal, probably 100 -150 mm in 
diameter which could be flattened to  and tacked up in shingle fashion to clad 
the roof.
              
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And about the world's biggest solar chimney in Australia that Peter/Pam Martin 
pointed out, the article mentions:

  "  ... the key to the technology lies in creating an environment that maintains 
       a temperature differential between the inside and the outside of the
        greenhouse.  Under those conditions, air inside the greenhouse rushes 
        along the upward-sloping ceiling toward the centre, creating a near 
        constant "wind" that then turns the turbines"

Hmmm...  "maintains a temperature differential bewteen inside and outside" 
 ... like what bales as thermal insulation excel at doing ?

I can see it all now ... el Lupo  standing arms akimbo atop the world's 
tallest structure;   a six mile diameter wide, bale and beer bottle 
solar chimney /power generation  plant. 

And the ever resourceful el Lupo would of course notice that all of 
the heat being produced to turn the turbines, instead of being exhausted
into the atmosphere (as per the original plan), could be utilised to be used 
to power the World's Biggest Still,  all at the site of the 2002 Corroboree.

That'd be one BIG bale raisin' ... (and one BIG hangover afterwards).
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Rob Tom
Kanata, Ontario, Canada
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