Greetings, On Tue, 2008-10-07 at 20:38 +0000, Troy Jones wrote: > Yes, multistory would be prohibitively difficult. Imagine an array of > connected ones, though, similar to this grouping of connected yurts: > > http://www.yurts.com/images/photo-gallery/large/22_gallery_lrg.jpg > > > That would get the square footage up to a liveable amount (by Western > standards) for a couple or small family.
Sure, but, if you take the same structure, and make it three stories, you could house three small families, or one big one, and leave that much more land for farming, production, or, even, space for another six or so more families, than it would have, otherwise. And if you put several more large pods connected via the small ones, you could even build a whole community based around the housing, with a good use of the space, as opposed to sprawling all over the place. Land, too, can be a luxury. Also, if you manage a multi-level structure, you can build factories of various sorts, to sustain the lives of those who live in the housing, etc. If we could make them ecofast, and sustainable, we might not have to use them as temporary housing, but as replacement, or rebuilt housing, for places that were destroyed, like the large sections of New Orleans, or Texas that have yet to be rebuilt. Just a thought. Percival > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > Subject: [hexayurt] Re: Grancrete > > To: hexayurt@googlegroups.com > > Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 15:56:28 -0400 > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Greetings, > > > > On Fri, 2008-10-03 at 20:48 +0000, Troy Jones wrote: > > [...] > > > > > I think there's a real class of people, and quickly growing at > that, > > > who are doing well enough that they're not in a tent, but who > can't > > > afford a traditional house and would be thrilled with 1200 square > feet > > > of a close-packed hexayurt grouping if it came in around $25-$30K. > A > > > business built around that as a non-profit could then funnel > revenue > > > into the relief side of things. > > > > One thing that comes to my mind at this, is how does one make > > multi-story grancrete or hexayurt structures? I saw the videos for > > grancrete, and watching they bike/walk across the boards showed that > > they were not all that good for unsupported flooring (too much bow). > > For the Farm-e style of hexayurt, you could probably put 4 > together[1] > > and run similar flooring as to the walls over the top of vertical > > designed 8' walls, and put a second story on top of that, although, > I > > don't know where you would put the stairway/access (might have to > get > > really creative) but cities have limited land, and growing up is > often a > > better choice than sprawling. > > > > > > Percival > > > > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hexayurt" group. To post to this group, send email to hexayurt@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hexayurt?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
