GEODESIC DOMES, YURTS, and AD HOC IMPROMPTU HOUSING STRUCTURES FOR YOUR 1-ACRE FARM (PLUS the NEW GUY ON THE BLOCK, THE DOME WHICH CANNOT BE BURNT OR QUAKED).
There are yurts and geodesic domes available in the marketplace for between 10 and 25 thousand dollars. But what Earth needs now is a POP UP QUICKIE FAST CHEAP YURT for hippies, rural land owners who exit the city broke,homeless, but also EASY BREEZY for NATIONS & victims of quakes and floods, civil wars and charity organizations. A YURT should be an inexpensive home, something you could pull out of a few cartons and assemble while your family used the camping stove to make lunch. By night time, you would have a house with doorways, windows, air conditioning and a vent in the top. The next day you start planting edible vegies in a forest clearing nearby. The right YURT or DOME would be organic, cheap natural materials, no chemicals & could last a decade even in extreme weathering conditions. I'd call it an ECCOTERRA DOME.
The yurts and straw bale homes up for sale are super fancy compared to this new version of the ecoterra dome. The YURTS have thick wooden beams overhead and stone walls all round, genuine tiled bathrooms and they often are set on 25 acres of land ergo the cost can be super high but it set me wondering isn't there a way to micky mouse 1 yurt for a person's recently bought acre in the sticks? OR one's rural squat Property far from any nearby farms, just out in the woods? Like a more muscular tent?
While I think any healthy man could build a yurt, given a diagram and given some pine trees in the forest and a generator and a chain saw ... oh and an acre of paid up land, a composting toilet, a well with a pump that ran off solar cells, or a generator...what about something faster to assemble, to live in while you build your big yurt? Later you can use it for tool storage.
I have a friend who's an amateur landscaper. He's been trying to solve the quickie home problem by trying different brick/ tile formulas using Corn starch and polymers. The concept of extreme low cost was an imperative for him. He is jobless, not homeless thanks to his late mother. This YURT idea is for people who want shelter for a decade or under yet attainable in a few hours of building. It could be that with oncoming difficulties in MUSLIM countries, as well as many recessionary cities, many people would just want a few boxes of these 'cornflake tiles' that he thinks he has invented........ stored in their garage to throw into the van the day they have to get out of the city quickly. Sleeping bags, camp stove, lanterns and THE ECCO TERRA DOME tiles
People still can build cabins in the wild with a chain saw. As a family project, they can furnish them from dumpsters in alleys full of wood risers I am crazy about the new TV SHOW "JUNK RAIDERS" where people find cupboards and appliances, sinks and pipes from hotlines and do a hundred thousand makeover for ninety bucks. They use the internet, hotlines and posters asking for donations and contractors call them and give away fairly new appliances. They make demolition buddies and carry it all to their 'yurt' or loft. But there is still a need for a two hour quik build shelter, one that can last a decade. I think the GEODESIC DOME that 'builds fast,' is an idea that handy folks could work on,invent. BUILD.
The final touch for an ad hoc shelter would be a generator for electricity but nowadays, solar cells work for that too, even enough energy to run a computer. http://www.masterjules.net/bildhouse.htm
THE BASIC YURT design
GEODESIC DOME DESIGN
This just arrived from Gayla Gordon, a former CSL regular and Feng Shui educator who moved a yr ago, with her husband Barry Gordon, to Prescott, AZ. I suggest u check this out, pls before you build or occupy another conventional box house.
These babies go for 150 k. So, how could one micky mouse those
round bendy interior rafter. HAVE A READ FROM ONE MANUFACTURER: Do you want SAFETY? In the FOREST, avoid the firestorm. Monolithic Domes appear to be fire and earthquake resistant and have lower insurance premiums, greater energy efficiency and structural strength. Most builders/ designers are unaware of these facts evidently.
Rebuild Santa Rosa To Be Disaster Resistant!
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Tubbs-Fire-unleashed-fiery-tornadoes-that-12289228.php
This attachment is a good representation of what happened in NW Santa Rosa.
Hmmm, the fires escalated because of square-edged buildings! Sad! —When will we learn??? Square homes are old fashioned and easily demolished by fire or earthquake. Square homes should be a thing of the past. Dome structures are impervious to high winds, fires, AND earthquakes! It’s time to stop thinking of domes as "quirky design” and start thinking of them as safe structures for the Future.
Watch this video to see how fire just jumps over a dome home, leaving only outside cosmetic damage:
http://www.monolithic.org/homes
Dome homes cost the same as traditional homes, but use 1/2 the energy. And get lower insurance premiums, because they are Disaster resistant.
People should learn about domes and then inform Santa Rosa's Re-Building Department!
Can you imagine Coffee Park filled with beautiful, SAFE domes for homes, restaurants and other businesses?
And how about replacing the hundreds of melted trailers, in Journey’s End, with domes? SEE: https://www.i-domehouse.com/
Japan is leading the way:
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=dome+homes%2c+japan&id=32683AA981C3BA4B1E8280521100778825DB489B&FORM=IQFRBA
Japan's National Department of Building gives big rebates for replacing old structures with domes… Guess they know more quakes are AHEAD!
A few months ago, I sent out an email about the value and beauty of Domes. Did you get it?
NOW that the slate/environment has been wiped clean, it is the time and opportunity to pay close attention to sustainable, disaster resistant options, i.e., DOMES. http://www.odditycentral.com/architecture/japans-earthquake-resistant-dome-houses-are-made-of-styrofoam.html
If I still lived in Santa Rosa CALIF, demolished by 2017 fires that raced 250 feet a second killing 2 dozen... you can bet that I’d be pushing this agenda hard to the "Santa Rosa Powers That Be" (even though I don’t have a penny to gain from it). But since I’m far away, in Arizona, I must leave it to you, to catch the VISION, and the POSSIBILITIES, and to inspire those S.R. Powers That Be to THINK OUTSIDE OF THE BOX, literally! Square homes are old fashioned and easily demolished by fire or earthquake. Square homes should be a thing of the past. Domes = an intelligent, safe and aesthetic future. Japan, as a country, knows it, promotes it, inspires it, even funds it. Santa Rosa needs to know it! —And Re-build accordingly. Guess fashionable Californians are afraid to look like a field of Mushrooms! (found online ANITA did NOT write this) But let me say the final word: GET a SOLAR GENERATOR 2000 which fits in your car trunk when you return to the city.
If you agree, please send this message forward to anyone you can think of who can, or who knows someone who can, make a difference in County Policy.
Or, to people who’ve lost everything and want to rebuild. It’s going to be hard to undo the devastation. But maybe we can help to heal the future.
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