#video #toread of part 8 of a #ferrocement #dwelling (32')
on 02026-10-05#video #toread on a #ferrocement tank with a temporary inner form (20')
on 02026-10-05#video #toread on the cheapest #ferrocement wall (19')
on 02026-10-05#video #toread on a #ferrocement cafeteria (5')
on 02026-10-05#Ferrocement tank building #video #toread
on 02026-01-14#Ferrocement #dwelling building #video, part 7, framing the armature #toread
on 02026-01-14#Ferrocement tunnels #video #toread
on 02026-01-13#Ferrocement #video on “free-forming” a 20-“foot” “bond-beam” for a castle #dwelling. He’s backing his ferrocement with plywood forms while it cures I guess? With just a single layer of expanded sheet metal “lath” to hold the mortar together, with rebar (sometimes “remesh”) to give it more shape. He’s trying to make the bond beam by using one side of an existing wooden/OSB I-beam (pre-consumer architectural salvage) as a form, which he eventually removes once the cement has set. It seems like he’s using plywood/OSB “forms” for one to three days to hold a first coat of mortar together, and then removing them to apply a coat from the opposite side. Also he’s eating green plums off his plum tree.
on 02026-01-13#faircompanies #video on Zach and Allison Anderson’s “#underground maze of light-filled earth homes” #dwelling, which is mostly not really underground. The above-ground part looks magical, #building with twisted #ferrocement trees for pillars and a central tower, with curved raised-bed gardens on some of the roof. Totally based on ferrocement. Most beds are inside apses behind archways in the walls of bedrooms, sleeping niches with a bed-height floor. Footage is included of spraying the “falseworks” of ½" rebar and slab mesh and expanded metal lath with shotcrete after plastering one side with fiber-enriched plaster. Rainfall from the top is collected through a 3 “inch” pipe into a huge donut-shaped underground cistern (60000 “gallons”). For tax purposes most of the house is categorized as “landscaping” because it’s not climate-controlled. Largely inspired by Forestiere’s underground gardens. The bookshelves on the spiral staircase up to the vault house contain Robert Ludlum, Orson Scott Card, William Gibson, Jo Nesbø, Andy Weir, James Patterson, and Kate Atkinson. His main bed is on a balcony near the top of the tower, “high enough off the ground that there are no mosquitoes”. For outer walls with sandstone-like veins through them, with the appearance of wind-eroded strata, they built custom trowels to plaster it on there, then used an “organic patina acid” to darken some of the strata after it cured. Elsewhere he “pivoted” his ferrocement around an existing oak grove in order to incorporate it into the living space. There are lots of bookshelves that are actually doors. Also there is a chicken coop. His term for the standard superadobe geometry is “lancet dome”, like a lancet arch.
on 02026-01-13