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Cassa
Cassa
WA
1305 posts
WA, 1305 posts
15 Jun 2010 3:03pm
What a great guy, and some outrageous but cool building ideas
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I will be building in Exmouth soon so please send beer cans, bourbon botts , wine botts (dont bother to stress yourself emptying them , I can do that for you,)

Gizmo
Gizmo
SA
2865 posts
SA, 2865 posts
15 Jun 2010 10:33pm
A friend of mine years ago wanted to build a house from tyres filled with rammed earth, The local council didn't want a bar if it.
In the end he built a clone suburban house in the Adelaide hills, nice house but the alternative would have been SO MUCH better.
GypsyDrifter
GypsyDrifter
WA
2371 posts
WA, 2371 posts
16 Jun 2010 3:44pm
I remember this guy from the late 70's I believe he built
his earth house out in an area of very hot country (Nevada maybe?)
I think he built it half under the land to help with cooling and heating..
and they had a earth house movement that started around him.

There is also a movement in Europe ...with people building these sorts of homes..one guy wanted to build it in England..but to much council resistance so he moved his family to France and built it there.

Wow and he went to the Andaman islands and helped these people...wow..."fantastic"

Great clip Cassa.....I'll start you off with a slab of XXXX you can make yourself a nice letterbox
sausage
sausage
QLD
4874 posts
QLD, 4874 posts
16 Jun 2010 6:54pm
GypsyDrifter said...

Great clip Cassa.....I'll start you off with a slab of XXXX you can make yourself a nice letterbox


I suspect a slab of XXXX would make a better toilet somehow.

As an architect this is great to see, but the approvals process in most local authorities proves near impossible if it's not the ubiquitous "Brick Venereal Veneer" construction. I cannot believe with all the technology available to humans in the 21st century we still end up with incredibly bad outcomes.
GypsyDrifter
GypsyDrifter
WA
2371 posts
WA, 2371 posts
16 Jun 2010 6:21pm
He will need at least need 2 slabs for a loo sausage...(well I would want a comfy one )
I was going to offer a cask of red as well but I was not too sure what he could do with that
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