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I don't like that centre pillar. I would have put good old I beams instead. I'm also looking for an earthship design, but the one problem I have with pretty much all the designs is that there is always a compromise between comfort and energy efficiency.
I considered a geodesic dome, the best when it comes to structural integrity, but those windows have to be triangular, and the house is spherical, not really a place I would like to live.
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Your design looks cool. The problem is that you will lose a lot of heat through the windows on the north, east and west sides. I don't see how the thermal mass in the four corners will do the job of heating and cooling the house sufficiantly. This all depends on where you're planing to build it.
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You want to try using a reciprocal roof on the second story? Eliminate the central pillar altogether?
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You want to try using a reciprocal roof on the second story?
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@steveoo5 true
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it seems as thought you are loosing the whole passive solar energy and thermal battery idea behind the earthship with this design.
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I don't like it because you wouldn't really be able to grow food, or have sunlight all day
steveoo5 2 years ago
@steveoo5 This is really only a structural design idea...
Sunlight all day... This idea has 4 different exposures.
Food production... Thats not what I really had in mind in this actual idea, however it would be easy enough to modify one of the wings to have another structure attached direclty. Even cisterns could be added in seperate wings.
I was just going for the idea of the '4 sided shape' for a structural idea.
WeHugTrees2 1 year ago