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Handmade house - Thailand - Rob Tucker - 03-24-2014
A friend of mine sent me this link to his fantasy house.
It may be inspirational for some here in Hawaii. It is beautiful and it is a tropical home.
I worry about it's structural integrity but I'll just offer it up as an example of creative design.
Enjoy.
http://www.viralnova.com/dream-dome-home-thailand/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=aweber
RE: Handmade house - Thailand - Birney - 03-24-2014
Oh my gosh, I saw this the other day and wanted to post it. Thanks Rob, very fun to look at
Wendy Alderson
RE: Handmade house - Thailand - shave_ice - 03-24-2014
I saw this last week too. Love it. It would be awesome to have as a quest house, or even a regular house, not that it would be legally allowed here probably.
RE: Handmade house - Thailand - kalakoa - 03-24-2014
Amazing.
If built here: permits would cost more than labor or materials. Not impossible, but no longer inexpensive.
RE: Handmade house - Thailand - Seeb - 03-24-2014
Unrestrained or reinforced masonry in an earthquake zone might have some issues. But it is pretty
RE: Handmade house - Thailand - fishenjim - 03-25-2014
Dome structures are supposed to have incredible strength.A Lot of Roman structures using arch/ dome method have withstood centuries of earth quakes.It is a great looking structure.A strong enough quake could make it a death trap.But in a strong enough quake what isn't.I was in a two story wood frame structure in the Northridge quake it shook so hard for about 45 seconds I still can't believe it stood . Not even a red tag just some cracked stucco.
RE: Handmade house - Thailand - gwiz - 06-12-2015
Would make a great shelter, but I think with double-curved round walls...you'd have to customize anything to butt up flush against them (cabinetry, shelving, lighting or other mounting plates, even a simple painting, etc)...
RE: Handmade house - Thailand - ericlp - 06-14-2015
This has been going around on FB like crazy. Well, I bet this guy had a lot of money to complete this. Even tho, in Thailand labor is pretty cheap and materials like bricks are probably 1/10 of the cost of here.
RE: Handmade house - Thailand - shockwave rider - 06-15-2015
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Originally posted by gwiz
Would make a great shelter, but I think with double-curved round walls...you'd have to customize anything to butt up flush against them (cabinetry, shelving, lighting or other mounting plates, even a simple painting, etc)...
It looks like most of that stuff is built in place when the house was built, out of the same materials as the shell, even the bed. In parts of South America that is pretty common.
RE: Handmade house - Thailand - Peter Epperson - 06-15-2015
On the lower left is a photo of a ferrocement dome we built in Orchidland years ago. http://www.pacificgunite.com/ferrocement-construction.html No worries about unreinforced dome collapsing in an earthquake. There is plenty of steel in there. My engineer told the owner that if a hurricane was coming he was heading over to her pplace.