Re: SB: Straw Building beats out Airport in Design Compeition

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Title: Re: SB: Straw Building beats out Airport in Design Compeition

This is a most excellent acknowledgement of a future path to building.

Thank you for all the sweat, intelligence and meaning you bring to our practice.

Kathleen Blakistone
> From: "John Swearingen" <john@skillful-means.com>
> Date: Sat, 18 May 2002 22:17:54 -0700
> To: "ADPSR" <ADPSR@aol.com>, <strawbale@crest.org>, "CASBA Members" <casba-members@afterburner.sonic.net>
> Subject: SB: Straw Building beats out Airport in Design Compeition

> Tipping+Mar, an engineering firm in Berkeley, has won this year's Design Excellence Award from the Structural Engineers Association of California for David Mar's engineering of a straw-bale studio in Joshua Tree.  The structure, which was designed and built by Skillful Means, uses only straw, mesh and stucco to develop strengths far in excess of code requirments for high seismic areas.
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> The project won the award over much larger and more costly competition, such as the new San Francisco Airport building.  The design was developed, mostly, at David and Anne Torney's  dining table during the course of several excellent meals. The criteria for the design were that the building structure be primarily of straw, should make integral use of bales for structure, and use commonly available materials and methods (ie: no gunnite)  The design principles and methods have already been used in China and Mongolia to construct safe, low-cost buildings with existing second-world technology. 
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> Visit the Skillful Means website for a look at the project:  www.skillful-means.com <http://www.skillful-means.com>   Click on "projects", then "vault".  enjoy....
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> John Swearingen
> Skillful Means--Architecture and Construction
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> PO Box 207
> Junction City, CA  96048
> email:  john@skillful-means.com
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> We invite you to visit our extensive web site: http:// www.skillful-means.com <http://www.skillful-means.com>