[lifesaviors] [PANEL-D] PP "Palaces Proposal Final Summation"
- From: "Lion Kuntz" <lionkuntz@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: ET-PARTI@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, lifesaviors@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 13:28:53 -0800
First Approximation Materials Requirements
Palaces for the People
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There are no blueprints or engineering studies for the as yet hypothetical
Palaces for the People.
A totally arbitrary figure of one hectare was assumed. This figure was derived
from the fact that it is similar in dimensions to average square city blocks in
many cities. Since most people do not have intuitive grasp of many common
metric units, adopting a standard square hectare size and shape allows
residents and neighbors to have a "yardstick" to judge what a hectare really
means.
For a similar reason, 3 meters height per floor was adopted, again totally
arbitrary.
A working figure (perhaps to be modified extensively as planning progresses) of
six stories or floors was adopted. The floor areas are numbered from the ground
up, and the enclosed portions of lot area are as follows:
Floor 1: 100%, 1 hectare = 100 meters by 100 meters,
Floor 2: 100%, 1 hectare = 100 meters by 100 meters,
Floor 3: 64%, 80 meters by 80 meters,
Floor 4: 36%, 60 meters by 60 meters,
Floor 5: 16%, 40 meters by 40 meters,
Floor 6: 4%, 20 meters by 20 meters,
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total FAR 3.2 (Floor Area Ratio to lot size)
3.2 hectares of interior floor space, gross figure, does not take into account
wall thicknesses subtracting from usable space, other adjustments, etc.
There is also one basement of yet to be determined size, and perhaps
sub-basement rooms for infrastructure.
Building is constructed of load-bearing walls and pillars, supporting spanning
trusses.
The initial goal is to calculate a rough figure of materials needed to build
the structural shell, so as to acquire an initial ballpark estimate of
materials costs. These are pure materials costs, not counting labor for
construction.
The idea is to get some idea of the fixed-costs of building a structure. For
interim working figure, a value of 1/3rd costs are assigned to materials, 1/3rd
to construction labor, and 1/3rd to land acquisition, financing, permits, fees,
etc.
If somebody has better information which can make these numbers and values more
accurate, please speak up without delay.
"It is interesting that at the present time, twenty-two years later, the U.S.
government is specifying in its bids for space structures the octet truss (my
copyrighted trademark name) for all the main structuring for space stations"
_Buckminster Fuller
The Octet Truss is considered strong enough to service in the most hostile
environment human beings have ever entered (vacuum space), but is not in common
use in large public buildings.
Buckminster Fuller introduced the Octet Truss, which he called the isotropic
vector matrix.
http://www.grunch.net/synergetics/octet.html
http://www.grunch.net/synergetics/ivm.html
http://www.tabletoptelephone.com/~hopspage/Fuller.html
http://reality.sculptors.com/~salsbury/Gifs/Graphics/octet-truss-003-v1.png
Here are pictures of the Museum of Modern Art Fuller Octet Truss exhibit.
http://www.synergeticsinc.com/bodytext/Moma.htm
http://www.synergeticsinc.com/bodytext/exhibit.htm
sidebar: reinforced pozzolana-crete ----------
"Appropriate Use Of Pozzolana Derived From Appropriate Use Of Pozzolana Derived
From
Agro-waste Using Labour-Based Appropriate Agro-waste Using Labour-Based
Appropriate
Technology Technology"
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http://www.transport-links.org/transport_links/ifg/CD%202/IFG_presentations/Minimising%20the%20Cost%20of%20Sustainable%20Rural%20Access/Pozzolana%20From%20Agro-waste%20Using%20Labour-Based%20Technology.pdf
<URL ends>
(If the Cambodians can produce Pozzolana on villiage scale labor-based
appropriate technology, what's your excuse?)
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The Octet Truss is a gender-friendly construction method which does more with
less. Capable of being built indoors in any weather as components of
prefabricated units, Octet Truss modules can be built onsite or pre-fabricated
offsite prior to final assembly. Using less than a tenth the steel content, the
Octet Truss dispenses with enormous quantities of mass and weight which
otherwise impose crushing burdens on lower supporting floors. One-tenth the
weight, twice as strong.
It is a strenuous burden on contemporary imaginations to conceive of a society
with ample solar energy available. Palaces, equiped with one or two megawatts
of daily power, converting some into electrolyzed hydrogen gas (H2), will have
both electric and gas available for welding, smelting, and foundry work.
Solar PV Breeder farms will generate so much solar PV electricity that they
will breed more solar PV panels, hence the name. The refuse of a Palace will go
down the gullets of furnaces: glass to become glass fibers (fiberglas
reinforcements, lightpipes, data conduction fibers) or glass bricks, or further
purified to become SOG PV feedstock, steel cans will be melted into rebar rods
for Octet Trusses, aluminum cans will be melted for refabrication into solar
panel support structures, and as wire for electrification purposes.
The synergies between the Palaces, the Solar PV breeders, and the ecosyn
microfarms will produce a virtually wasteless society.
This is the development and prototyping project that the small working group
has signed on for.
Computing the least amount of materials sufficient for Palaces and PV Breeders,
plus computing the reliable food security of microfarming techniques, is the
immediate tasks at hand.
The tasks themselves dictate some of the sequences of procedure. Speak up if
you notice anything too vague or out of proper order.
Thank You for your interest,
Lion Kuntz
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