My friends recently built their first home on a very modest budget... wait I actually mean almost no budget! Here's a link to their website were you can see pictures of the process, from the temporary homemade yurt to their cute little, low cost, and simply constructed earthbag home.
Their design brings up the issue we discussed on the Radon thread - their earthbag yurt is sitting on the ground, or better put, without an air space between them and the ground. So I wonder how air tight this house is, it looks very tight. And if radon or other such earth emissions will be an issue.
I call this design the easy yurt. I read "Mongolian Cloud Houses" and "The Complete Yurt Handbook" and knew there was no way that I was going to stitch hundreds of feet of fabric together. The main modification I would make to the design is to make the wall poles tall enough that the roof poles could lay in between them and be held in place with a loop of rope, ala the yurt handbook.
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