Mud Bubbles

[freebeard]

I had to go all the way back to post #1 to find the reference.

I have my own design, of course. It has a general leveling (see the cut-and-fill that Geoships did). But then to mimic historical precedents it has a fire ring in the center, in a sunken conversation pit.

Except this fire ring would be a smokeless fire pit..

The two step pit would have a sump underneath and an air tube that spirals in from the outside. When the fire pit is not in use, it can be a fan-driven earth-tempering air intake.

Any arbitrary soil sample will need amendments, usually clay or sand. A rammed earth floor can be stabilized with ox blood or rice water. Upper floor levels would be shoes off, burnished hard wood.

[Piotrsko]

Oxblood? Ummm that's a programmer's insider joke.

The issue I see with ceramics is that they tend to be brittle and don't like movement. Not a candidate in the west. However depending on definition, bricks are ceramic and if one used a RTV you could get ceramic "bricks" to work well

[freebeard]

It was the practice in Medieval times, when oxen were more common. Can't find a reference.

Technically, it's a geopolymer. The Geoship CEO, Morgan Bierschenk, describes it as similar to bone. It cured at room temperature, in from 45 down to 3 minutes, depending on how hot the mix is.

[freebeard]

I emailed this to someone else, and thought I'd post it here.



A ten-sided plan with five partial domes surrounding a central one. The two-frequency domes provide a continuous top plate over door and window locations.

[freebeard]

Building ecovillage of storm-proof homes made of bone-like biomaterial

Kirsten Dirksen does Geoships. There is an interesting progression -- the first half is a good look at the factory and their one built example. Then it flashes two or three minutes of computer graphic walk-throughs and fly-throughs and finishes with an extended visit to their chief designer's glamping setup.

They haven't solved the ingress/egress problem. Here's how to make an octagon house zome (not dome) with flat walls (or not):



A 15.5ft cube gives a 10ft primary edge length