Guest guest Posted July 9, 2005 Report Share Posted July 9, 2005 http://www.arcosanti.org/project/main.html " God was my co-pilot, but we crashed in the Andes and I had to eat him. " Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 9, 2005 Report Share Posted July 9, 2005 Thought I'd seen something about this before. I know an author (writes on homesteading), so I wrote and asked him about it. Here's his reply: >Lynda It's in my book. I have visited Arcosanti many times starting in the mid-seventies. I've also attended a weekly session with Paolo Soleri at his Cosanti home in Scottsdale, where they make and sell wind chimes as at Arcosanti, a smaller production operation but a good retail place for the project. He is one smart dude. Little bitty guy, probably doesn't weight 110 pounds but he has a huge brain. When he asked my interest and I told him about homesteading and my book he smiled and looked knowingly at one of his associates. Our individual homestead model conflicts with his more sustainable vision--and reality at Arcosanti--of close community sharing tools and facilities and minimizing vehicular use. Arcosanti is a design we can all learn from. One of the first structures at Arcosanti was the foundry, which is shaped as an apse. They piled up a bodacious amount of soil, put a design into the surface that would later appear on the underside of the concrete roof, installed reinforcing steel, poured the concrete shell and after the concrete cured, dug out the dirt. Magnificent structure that will last centuries. Catches winter sun and holds the heat, shades from summer sun and tempers the heat with the great mass. Essentially zero maintenance. It is a design I consider for a garden house. Built into a hill, earth bermed, and closed with movable glass, it would be even more temperature steady. I see it as a greenhouse/nursery/tool storage building. Arcosanti is well worth a visit for anyone driving Highway 17 between Flagstaff and Phoenix. - fraggle <EBbrewpunx <lettuceheads >; <TFHB >; Friday, July 08, 2005 9:03 PM interesting.... > http://www.arcosanti.org/project/main.html > > " God was my co-pilot, but we crashed in the Andes and I had to eat him. " > > > To send an email to - > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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