This actually works. You inflate a bag and the set up a network of wire or some form of rebar which can be certainly thinned down. then the whole thing is covered with a slightly larger bag and it is all pumped full of cellular concrete. Obviously the inner bag needs to be well inflated.
After all that you finish it for whatever use including as a home. we already know that even a snow igloo holds up an internal temperature just from folks living there.
Venting will be an issue, but we can design a proper atmosphetric heat exchanger to help this. And if the bags are good, tgey can be left in place to seal the concrete.
So why not folks? The box system is wonderful but has real limitations. This system is not easy to build inside of, but it certainly can secure a sound working environment. How about a simple drop bed for sleeping. It is clearly tall enough. Add a sheet of verticle dry wall and you have a straight back surface behind which power can be rigged or plumbing.
Lots of potential for imagination here and just may be good enough.
These $4,000 homes are keeping families in the Pine Ridge Native American Reservation...
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As always, you post fascinating materials. too bad there were no links or reprint of the article you discovered. But thank you for sharing this - and for the thousands of others over the years. I link to your postings via Freedom's Phoenix!
ReplyDeleteI do have a specific reason for commenting this time, however.
Your headline calls it the "Pine Ridge Native American Reservation," which is not only incorrect factually but also disgusting to many of us. The official and legal name is the "Pine Ridge Indian Reservation" and it is the homeland of the Oglala Lakota Oyate (Nation), sometimes called the Oglala Sioux Tribe (OST) and informally the Pine Ridge Sioux. The Oglala are one of the seven bands of the Lakota. The Lakota are one of the three branches of the Očhéthi Šakówiŋ (Seven Council Fires) also known as the Great Sioux Nation: Lakota, Nakota, and Dakota. They are NOT happy about being referred to as "Native Americans" and lumped together with hundreds of totally different nations, anymore than a Deutscher or Nederlander would be pleased to be lumped together with each other or dozens of other nationalities as "Native Europeans."
I hope you will accept this criticism as constructive from another engineer. You always try to be very precise and accurate, and I understand that the forced conformity of media and society to use disgusting terms like "Native American" is hard to see and resist.