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Old 03-15-2025, 07:16 PM   #7 (permalink)
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Hempcrete posts? In Saigon the French used concrete and strap iron telephone poles and the Americans used wood. Wonder which are left today.



DDG can't find a picture of one but there exists a 'pinecone plydome'. You'll notice there is an edge up orientation in the 1959 patent drawing. This creates a ridgeline of sorts. Then the [two] five-way vertexes that were pinwheeling can be shingle-lapped instead. Re-lap everything and it's all downhill from there. Widen each piece to minimize the gap and extend the downhill edge to overlap the lapped edges lower down.

The result is a shingled hemisphere with no struts, just 2x the sheeting.
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