Here's a quick sketch of the idea using logs and the earthen roof. Some design issues with window facing, ventilation and maybe drainage. So, I'll probably just order some tape and go with a foam H13 for now. The sketch below is essentially a log wofati H13 with 8' walls with a 4' high loft at its highest. I'm thinking the windows would face southeast and southwest. Not sure how to safely incorporate the hut earthship style vent in the roof. So, will think about it for awhile. <https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-Jq2cS1wO6vo/U9is-OxIJgI/AAAAAAAAFVE/uDGE-0NsAiM/s1600/hexawofati.jpg>.
On Tuesday, July 29, 2014 5:03:47 PM UTC-4, James Cockerham wrote: > >> Another idea, working with some of Mike Oehler's underground methods is > to use 6" wide timbers as post on the six sides, as well as the roof of the > hex. Dig a 4' deep hexagon in the earth, install 8' posts in each corner. > Hex will have to be dug wider than actual structure to give room to install > shoring and polyethylene. Shoring can be timbers also so the interior looks > like a log cabin. Use excavated dirt to berm exposed 4'... In typical > designs, these houses have a shed roof draining to the downhill side. With > a hexyurt roof, water will drain to all sides. So, possibly an extended > gable with pie shaped shoring to make sure water drains to the sides of the > house and a uphill patio with French drains installed, or even just a > gutter leading to a barrel on the exposed entrance side. > > The spot I'm planning to put this is on top of a mountain on a fairly flat > spot with gentle slope. The 4' excavation would make an overall 12' > hexayurt, with probably enough room and strength for a sleeping loft. Since > this spot is fairly flat this structure after completion would look like a > small mound with plants and eventually trees growing on its roof. Not as > camouflaged as a shed roofed underground house built into a slope of a > hill, but still more camouflaged than a silver structure or conventional > home. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hexayurt" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hexayurt. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
