{"id":686,"date":"2009-05-03T22:40:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-03T22:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/notechmagazine.com\/2009\/05\/building-and-farming-in-the-21th-century.html"},"modified":"2014-04-27T16:07:28","modified_gmt":"2014-04-27T14:07:28","slug":"building-and-farming-in-the-21th-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/2009\/05\/building-and-farming-in-the-21th-century.html","title":{"rendered":"Construction and Farming in the 21th Century"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Lifetrac\"<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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“Marcin,\n<\/p>\n

Have you been able to do any research on ferrocement? I found a slightly different way of doing ceilings and roofs that you might be interested in. It is called timbrel vaults or Catalan vaults.\n<\/p>\n

Basically, it consists of creating a vault using tiles, and it requires very little formwork. The tiles then become the form for the roof, so you place your insulation on top of the tile vault, then a ferro-cement cap that could be sprayed on or applied by hand. It removes the need to stucco from below, which is a major pain with ferro-cement ceilings. Also, it reduces the need for steel in the ceiling, which saves a lot on building cost and complexity. <\/p>\n

You guys could make a tile machine similar to the Liberator CEB press, and use the tiles for the ceiling and the floor, making a building almost completely out of CEB-type material.\n<\/p>\n

We are trying this method out on a small building in the next few weeks, and I will let you know how it goes. The method appears to be very promising, and it would make ferro-cement roofs very easy and fast to do.\n<\/p>\n

Here are some links to look at:
\nhttp:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Guastavino_tile<\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/www.guastavino.net\/<\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/www.lowtechmagazine.com\/2008\/11\/tiles-vaults.html<\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/crossway.tumblr.com\/<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

Good luck,
\nAbe”<\/p>\n

A message<\/a> on Open Farm Tech<\/a>. Interesting projects, and still many things to do<\/a>.<\/p>\n

LifeTrac<\/a> is their impressive DIY tractor, picture above. (And at the very bottom of that page, a well placed link to Low-tech Magazine).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[41,12,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=686"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1025,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions\/1025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}