Aircrete Builds October 2019 Update

Turtle Dome Gravel Driveway

 I am pleased to be here and reporting that Turtle Dome has a gravel drive!  Turtle steps forward! 

Next update will be on the septic and that will be followed by foundation!  You can support the building of Turtle Dome here!

In anticipation of moving and setting up the arts workshop and teaching space I have been going through my possessions and, Wow!  Looking at myself through my stuff!  I am a bespoke woman.  

I think, looking back, even in childhood, I was upvamping and recycling and appreciating craftspersonship quality since some the early 1960's.  I was fortunate to be in a home where I saw a lot of variety through Look, Jet, Ebony, National Geographic, Poplar Mechanic, and other current magazines of that day; all most likely leaving some ideas impressed on my young mind regarding my eclectic design sensibilities and interest.  

Thanks for stopping in!

WLOL,

Patricia

Aircrete Builds A Dream

Aircrete Builds a Dream

Future dome home location

Aircrete Builds Blog will chronicle a home building for Patricia C. Coleman, the writer of this blog.   This build is the dream of a mold free home and belief that a recovering immune system is an outcome looming within the horizon.  I hope to build something that is as beautiful as it is useful, and to live long within it.

I have weird allergies. 

Because of these allergies, I’ve been looking at alternative building mediums for many years.  Previously I have followed papercrete.  It was seeking an update to that medium that led me to building with aircrete!

It is necessary for me to live in a home that doesn’t push my allergy buttons.  My building medium is a form of concrete that meets those conditions and further, it has a great R value, is impervious to insects, resistant to moisture, very strong and can be used to build so that your house can look like what you think your house needs to look like.  Cost is significantly less, it is light weight, sustainable, affordable and home builders can easily assist in the development of their own home projects. 

“A dome is a simple structure and it is amazing that nature builds with this form." Hajjar Gibran

This is Steve Areen's Basic Dome Home Pic

I am very pleased that Chris Martin agreed to be my builder on this concrete home build even after I told him that many of those working with him will be volunteers.   

"What am I doing”?  Return to read my next note in about a week.

May much be well with you!

Patricia