Miles Flansburg wrote:Catherine, I would love to see someone use logs to build a "beehive comb" type of housing unit. Imagine many different eight sided rooms built in a "circular" form which leaves a large open room in the center. Each unit would be similar to a Hogan, sharing walls and with strong dome shaped roofs. The whole building could be bermed around the outside, up onto each dome roof. The center "courtyard" could be covered with a large wooden dome also, surrounded by windows to let in light.
Bees make hexagon shaped cells, so you could have 1 room in the shape of an hexagon surrounded by 7 hexagon shaped rooms. This assumes they are all identical in size as it would be impossible to cobble different sized hexagon shaped rooms together. Making it as a log type house would be challenging, for sure, with all these angles!
I would suggest large closets could be created in the 'wasted' triangles on the outside, each 2 adjacent rooms sharing one large closet? Closets/ storage rooms do not require as much heat but function as a great insulating space too, although if it is a real log cabin, the insulation problem is solved. I love the idea of an inside "patio"/central room. If I read your project right, the central room would be much taller so accommodate these light giving windows. The glass windows would bring in lots of light so you could raise many seeds/ perhaps a tropical plant or two?
Or you could also have one overarching dome roof for the entire structure, which would make for a tight roof. [I'd be leery of the roof leaking if there are too many "seams" in it.]
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