07-21-2010, 06:24 PM
I saw an interesting structure at a yard sale last weekend. They said it wasn't a yurt but it was a "dome-home" or something along that line. It was made up of triangles a la Buckminster Fuller sort of a construction method. Triangles and covered by tent fabric. It seemed a much more economical version of a yurt like structure and much more suited to a semi-tropical climate than the traditional yurt. Still no place to put things on the roof and not much roof area for water catchment. Also no transition between inside and outside, but I suppose you could build a lanai onto it somewhere.
Personally, I prefer using traditional materials in old school construction methods and creating non box structures, but that's just me. You get the "energy" of a non-box structure, the utility of conventional framing (weight bearing, ease of material acquisition, etc.) and the ability for finance and insurance companies to fit you into their perception of "normal". But some folks like yurts, although it does seem many of them like the idea of yurts without actually having lived in one.
"I like yard sales," he said. "All true survivalists like yard sales."
Kurt Wilson
Personally, I prefer using traditional materials in old school construction methods and creating non box structures, but that's just me. You get the "energy" of a non-box structure, the utility of conventional framing (weight bearing, ease of material acquisition, etc.) and the ability for finance and insurance companies to fit you into their perception of "normal". But some folks like yurts, although it does seem many of them like the idea of yurts without actually having lived in one.
Kurt Wilson
Kurt Wilson