Dennis Mitchell wrote:Why build for just a two year period. Just set it up and live in contact with the earth. It seems to be a waste of materials, and labor.
We'll set it up at the foot of a hill, so I suspect that after some rainfall the earth will be quite moist.
It seems to me that it would become extremely dirty very quickly, no? With a platform, we could leave our shoes at the entrance and keep everything relatively clean inside.
Also, we're planning on building modular. So first we live in the tipi while we build a small building (a bathroom for example). Then we build a kitchen/living area. Only then we build a bedroom. And even after that it's likely that the tipi will be used for something, maybe even a children's room. But I'm definitely planning on keeping all costs as low as possible.