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re: tent roofs?
25 jul 1997
tvoivozhd wrote:
>harold r anderson wrote:
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>> i just read an article in the wisconsin state journal that i find
>> interesting. it quoted todd dalland "a thousand years ago, we built in
>> stone. five hundred years ago, we built in brick and a hundred years
>> ago, in steel and glass. buildings are getting lighter and lighter...
doing more with less. ephemeralization, as bucky used to say.
>as a one-time tract developer (species with the social conscience of
>lava-flow) i believe a home should tread as lightly as possible on wallet
>and terrain, while retaining essential elements of comfort and security.
ah, the joy of life in tents. but they aren't burglarproof, and these
transparent surfaces are better for daytime solar collection than night
insulation. maybe the tents should provide the weather barrier, with
strawbales stacked up inside for insulation.
>just go for the best combination of initial and ultimate cost plus wife
>or girl-friend taste-threshold (nick pine can tell you about that, too).
i have known aesthetic tyrants.
nick
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