Straw Bale Reciprocal Roof

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Straw bale reciprocal roof.

A home that only cost 3 500 euro. But i am also hungry to learn more about the physics strengths and weaknesses of these beautiful elegant yet simple roofs. Reciprocal roofs are generally found on round elliptical or polygonal buildings as the weight of. All in all it cost charlie about 15 000 23 000.

My question is this. It took charlie a little over a year to build his home with a reciprocal roof and lime plastered straw bale walls. Here are some pictures of a beautiful double reciprocal roof i found. A collection of pictures from rubble trench to final straw bale roundhouse with reciprocal roof by matthew robin white.

Charlie s home is designed from the natural resources available on the land using stone roundwood straw bales clay turf and lime. A straw bale roundhouse step by step. A reciprocal roof is a beautiful and simple self supporting structure that can be composed of as few as three rafters and up to any imaginable quantity within reason of course. They originated in medieval japan but probably date back further and aspects of reciprocity can be found in the roofs of many early human settlements.

I will build a building with a reciprocal roof structure with roundwood in central portugal. I am becoming more and more enamored with the idea of a reciprocal roof for my own round cob straw bale home. How exactly do i construct the foundations for this building. Reciprocal roofs require no center support they are quick to construct and they can be built using round poles or dimensional lumber perhaps with some creative.