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Did you check the floodplain map for this area?
What about the soils? What kind of foundation are you using?
floodplain map for this area
is a fucking mountain hill, water just flow down and in 10 min is gone.
soils
fucking hell,, all rocks ! I've dug so many rocks that I get tired. With my fucking bare hands! All the rocks you see on the front wall are from the hole I dug for 4 years.
foundation
Are you crazy? is solid rock. The whole mountain is a fucking rock. Nothing is moving there.
I don't have to be an engineer to see these things.
FFS this is the foundation, moving the 100 kg boulders by hand !
True engineering is designing for the unknown as well as the known.
Trying to mitigate risk of your shelter failing during a natural event like an earthquake or a typhoon.
Don’t want 4 years of digging a hole by hand to have the foundation fail because you didn’t account for soil compaction under the rock layer after a 100 year storm
See you in 100 years. My little house will still be in place as it is today.
And this is only the 1st one as a testing ground. More to come.
It could. But this is the trust me bro approach to design and construction it could work for 1000 years or a 3 sigma event on that mountain can wipe you out.
I saw houses built like this around. I just re-do what they did for more than 1000 years ago (and their houses are still in place).
I've tried to do a fucking stonewall like they did hundreds of years ago and cost me so much work just finding the right stones.
I think that construction is not just schooling and learning in university about terrain and materials. Is also about feeling and studying the surrounded area and materials. I founnd out (WITHOUT any paid studying in construction) by myself, testing and failing that not all rocks are the same good for construction.
As a fucking IT guy, that all his life worked only with computers, I've learned so much about construction and engineering, just by building this stupid small house. Just test, fail, repeat, improve.
Don't take me wrong, I do not want to brag for my work on this experimental house in the mountains. In the end is just an experiment, mostly to see how far I can go with this idea of building myself a homestead place, without any "engineered" plans. Just what my gut tells me.
Yes, many engineers will jump to say that what am I doing is wrong and can fall over me. But... should I care? If I die with the roof falling over me I will die happy that I tried.
And this is what engineers don't want you to know: trying is the ultimate experience you have in your miserable life. Trying to free yourself and demonstrate to the rest of the world that you can do it.
If I fail, I fail, so be it. Who cares?
Agreed. Engineering concepts are to enhance the construction experience not replace what has been working in an area for 1,000s of years.
Yes,, well said.
Please explain me how the ancestors built those fucking stonewalls... many kms away of stonewalls. I am fucking amazed how much work they put in that.
Took me 1 month to build a stupid 3x4 m wall with rocks. Carrying them from 200m away, by hand.
It looks unsafe, dank and decrepit.
Even your wife refuses to join you there in your sackcloth, mud and rubble hovel.
LMAO.
You may be a software engineer but you are not a builder.
https://m.stacker.news/142330
https://m.stacker.news/142331
https://m.stacker.news/142332
https://m.stacker.news/142356
I will join when you will dump your love for fiat...
Until then here is my construction and engineering without any degree into them: a living house, simple and functional.
I wonder how many stackers dare to do the same thing, with their bare hands and without too many resources.