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 Silent-Wings rated 24 months ago- "Documenting a personal quest for non-toxic housing"
The guy is searching for a space frame design as a low cost "non toxic" building paradigm.
Steel and aluminium is "non toxic" after construction ... Yes. But what about envirnemental cost of extracting steel and aluminium ? ... Very high !
Anyway, an interesting and ironic text.
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Most frustrating to me was the difficulty I encountered communicating with Pierce [note: designer of a truss node system] . It took years to track him down and, once found, he acted paranoid about the fact that I had any interest in this technology for any reason. (peculiar but, alas, I've come to learn that this is rather typical behavior for architects... If I only had a dollar for every time an architect, engineer, or corporate executive acted surprised and annoyed that I'd contacted them via phone numbers and e-mail addresses they themselves published in books, articles, and web sites I'd have more than enough money to build the home of my dreams!
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