Sat, July 18, 2020:
Strawbale Cabin: This is the end: taking down the cabin after 6 years. .
Wed, November 18, 2015:
Strawbale Cabin: A year in the cabin. .
Wed, November 26, 2014:
Strawbale Cabin: Roof finished, ready to move in. .
Wed, November 12, 2014:
Strawbale Cabin: Strawbale details, more plans and wall building plannings. .
Sat, November 1, 2014:
Strawbale Cabin: Starting with the diary, documenting the first steps doing the insulated floor. .
Wed, October 22, 2014:
Geodesic Dome Diary: After the storm of last night .
Mon, September 1, 2014:
Geodesic Dome Diary: 5m 2v icosa geodesic dome pitched incl. PE rain cover .
Fri, August 15, 2014:
Low Cost Dome (PVC): Calculator support for 3:3:2 and 4:4:3 as well aside of 3:x:2 and 4:x:3 .
Geodesic Dome Diary: First step of 2v icosa PVC dome, with simple stress test .
Thu, August 7, 2014:
Geodesic Dome Diary: Exploring 2v icosa PVC pipe based dome .
Mon, June 30, 2014:
Low Cost Dome (PVC): Improving the calculator and adding more details on hooks and captures of the hanging up the cover .
Mon, June 23, 2014:
Low Cost Dome (PVC): Included into the public web-site .
Sat, June 21, 2014:
Low Cost Dome (PVC): Update with photos of full size 5.1m diameter 4:x:3 dome skeleton .
Wed, June 18, 2014:
Low Cost Dome (PVC): First version of Low Cost Dome, documenting the building of a model .
Wed, May 30, 2012:
Helix Zome: Added photos of a PVC Zome .
Sun, November 14, 2010:
Geodesic Clay Mud Dome: Detailed description and photo series of the construction phase and interiors .
Wed, October 6, 2010:
Johnny's Capsule: Webified the flyer of "How to build a Capsule" by Johnny at Auroville .
Fri, December 18, 2009:
Yurt / Ger Diary: Last update, moved to France and describe with a bit longer entry .
Dome: Included the polyhedral and curved helix zome, not yet in the typology included. .
Tue, December 1, 2009:
Helix Zome: More description and illustrations, ready to be published .
Sun, November 22, 2009:
Zome: Rudimentary information, needs more math and background research .
Tue, November 17, 2009:
Helix Zome: First version with a brief description and mathematical description, and real life applications. .
Tue, May 12, 2009:
Yurt Builder Conference: A few notes from the conference as held in May 8-10 2009. .
Sun, July 6, 2008:
Yurt / Ger Diary: Photos from the take down, which I finally put up - with these the yurt diary also ends .
Sun, April 20, 2008:
Yurt / Ger Diary: Last days, concluding total wood usage for winter season 2007/2008, and larger skylights grids finished .
Sat, April 5, 2008:
Yurt / Ger Diary: Skylight grids further refined, with some photos. .
Sat, March 22, 2008:
Yurt / Ger Diary: Various skylight supporting grids with willow bows made, with photos and an illustration .
Tue, March 18, 2008:
Geodesic Solitude: Feature about Greg and his wife living in two geodesic domes, incl. a couple of photos. .
Tue, March 11, 2008:
Yurt Notes & Calculator: Cleaned up text and updated better photos illustrating how to erect a yurt, and added information about storm preparation. .
Mon, March 10, 2008:
Yurt / Ger Diary: Milder days, storm aftermath with a few thoughts how to prepare for a storm .
Tue, February 19, 2008:
Yurt Notes & Calculator: Added a few thoughts on "crownless" yurt roof approach .
Sun, January 20, 2008:
Yurt: Added native yurt example from Afghanistan .
Tipi: Added three ways to seal a tipi off rain through the pole junction opening: hood, drip strip and ozan .
Home: Included two photos of a "Multi Yurt" cluster approach using no tunnels, and example of an attached room .
Sat, January 5, 2008:
Yurt / Ger Diary: Added PVC to seal brittle older PE wall cover - concluding longlivity of PE for yurt usage after apprx. 24 months .
Wed, January 2, 2008:
Yurt: Added examples of native yurt from Mongolia, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan .
Sat, December 22, 2007:
Yurt / Ger Diary: December solstice, past days trying to dry the insulation which got wet before winter returned .
Mon, December 17, 2007:
Home: Various updates and changes through the entire site, new pulldown menus, bookmarking feature and so on. .
Wed, October 31, 2007:
Home: Site officially activated and redirection from old site ("Housing, Dwellings & Shelters") enabled. .
Mon, October 29, 2007:
Yurt / Ger Diary: Roof thermal insulation put up, roof extension over the door and also a door frame extension covering junctions. .
Tue, October 23, 2007:
Yurt / Ger Diary: Replacing door without taking down the yurt, and putting up the thermal insulation of the wall. .
Mon, October 1, 2007:
Home: Transfered all content from "Housing, Dwellings & Shelters" to SimplyDifferently.org. .
Thu, September 6, 2007:
Yurt / Ger Diary: Cooler weather, higher temperature range in the yurt, attaching stove pipe again, and looking at compost as heat source. .
Fri, August 17, 2007:
Triangulated Bow Dome: First version, with Bezier curve based model, three main types featured: 0/0 (hemisphere like), 25/0 (cross-tie bow dome like) and 45/0 (peak-tie bow dome like or "oriental") .
Sat, August 4, 2007:
Yurt / Ger Diary: Built a quick attached room with existing lattice-wall of 12m length. .
Wed, July 25, 2007:
Dome: First version, included dome typology with a brief overview of dome variants. .
Thu, July 19, 2007:
Bow Dome.dist: Cleaned up the article, and added "bow dome typology" to provide more systematic of variants, also enhanced the bow dome calculator. .
Tue, July 10, 2007:
Home: Reorganized entire start page, contains indepth numerical comparision of volume vs surface, roof and floor, and extended "Consideration & Rating" by size flexibility rating. .
Sat, June 30, 2007:
Yurt / Ger Diary: Kind of picked up the diary again, and updated it with various entry, weather diary, fixing small things on the yurt, meeting stone age enthusiast. .
Fri, June 22, 2007:
Tipi: Put the "notes" back into the main tipi section, added one new sewing option, and added historic photos of tipi. .
Wed, June 6, 2007:
Geodesic Polyhedra: Added Pentakis Dodecahedron, with its famous 8V version of Epcot's "Spaceship Earth" sphere. .
Sat, June 2, 2007:
Geodesic Dome Notes & Calculator: Changed strut sorting from 1/1'000 to 1/10'000, which changed the amount of different strut lengths for higher subdivided domes; removed two cube-based domes from the overview, now 65 variants featured. .
Wed, May 30, 2007:
Geodesic Dome Notes & Calculator: Included bending angle αlath for all struts and angles of face triangles for each version of dome .
Wed, May 2, 2007:
Home: Included Links here (last page), was formerly a separate section. .
Sat, April 28, 2007:
Geodesic Dome Diary: Moved the dome on the existing floor and interior (where I had the yurt), preliminary setup with interior cotton and PE as rain cover (from the yurt-setup). .
Yurt / Ger Diary: Yurt is taken down, and on the existing floor the geodesic dome has been moved with a preliminary setup. .
Tue, April 24, 2007:
Geodesic Dome Notes & Calculator: Added Octahedron L4 3/8, 5/8 dome and L3 7/16, 9/16 variants, as well Rhombicuboctahedron based domes (1V/L1, 2V/L2, and L3 at 3/8 & 5/8 height), total of 67 variants now featured. .
Tue, April 17, 2007:
Polyhedra Notes: 7 origins of Waterman polyhedra (CCP) included (W1-100, plus a few more for origin 1, 2, 3, 3*, 4, 5, 6) and an interactive viewer for those. .
Mon, April 16, 2007:
Home: Added information about snow slide on roofs of yurt and dome, and due the size of the homepage split it up into three pages. .
Fri, April 6, 2007:
Polyhedra Notes: Added Waterman Polyhedra, a parametrical created polyhedra of a defined complexity, which is a nice feature. .
Wed, April 4, 2007:
Geodesic Polyhedra: Added triacon variants and where suitable also the triacon dome variant as well .
Tue, April 3, 2007:
Home: Included a RSS feed you can subscribe (e.g. with Firefox it's built-in, just click on the orange RSS icon on the right in the URL bar). .
Mon, April 2, 2007:
Geodesic Dome Notes & Calculator: Major rewrite of the entire notes, I cover following geodesic dome variants (57) of Icosahedron (1V to 8V and related), Octahedron (1V to 10V and related), Cuboctahedron (1V to 4V), Cube (1V to 8V and related), and finally Truncated Octahedron (1V to 4V and related) fow now. Be aware of new notion of strut types (A-F etc so are labeled new). .
Sun, March 25, 2007:
Geodesic Polyhedra: Redefined and clarified L0, L1, L2 and so forth, and better explanation of Ln vs nV .
Fri, March 16, 2007:
Geodesic Dome Diary: Pitching the 6.33m 4V geodesic bamboo dome finally. .
Mon, March 12, 2007:
Geodesic Dome Diary: Possible variant to 4V: L2 which is a geodesized L1 or 2V variant, less strut length variance - this discovery comes from working on Geodesic Polyhedra. .
Geodesic Polyhedra: More details for each variant, incl. calculator for dome options. .
Thu, March 1, 2007:
Geodesic Polyhedra: Included dome variants when suitable, including strut maps. .
Sun, February 25, 2007:
Geodesic Polyhedra: First version with overview of platonic & archimedean geodesic forms, for now only L1 and L2 as I call them. .
Sat, February 10, 2007:
Polyhedra Notes: Added Johnson Solid, names & models rendered, listing vertices, edges & faces for now only (no calculators). .
Sun, February 4, 2007:
Polyhedra Notes: Compiled information for Platonic and Archimedean Solids (subset of Uniform Polyhedra) from various sources and additionally listed V, A, and rinner and router with a calculator for each platonic & archimedean solid. .
Wed, January 24, 2007:
Geodesic Dome Diary: Including also activities from 2005 when I built 2V, 3V and 4V model, for sake of completeness - as information is already available in the Geodesic Dome Notes. .
Sat, January 20, 2007:
Geodesic Dome Notes & Calculator: Minor update on Icosahedron, and 2nd level floor options included .
Thu, January 18, 2007:
Geodesic Dome Diary: Starting the diary with planning .
Mon, January 8, 2007:
Yurt: Added a dedicated page of Chris Aeppli I just visited incl. a small interview, and added links of others e.g. Claudius Kern and Yurt Village (Switzerland). .
Tue, January 2, 2007:
Yurt / Ger Diary: Visiting Chris Aeppli and his 7.5m yurt and new photos of the interior. .
Thu, December 14, 2006:
Yurt / Ger Diary: Skeleton of travel yurt finished, first erection .
Fri, December 8, 2006:
Yurt Notes & Calculator: Update on Standard vs Non-Standard Yurts (How to derive a standard), and various minor updates like on stove / pipe options. .
Sun, November 26, 2006:
Yurt / Ger Diary: Finishing thermal insulation setup, new PE rain cover - ready for winter 2006/2007. .
Sun, November 5, 2006:
Yurt / Ger Diary: Further updates on progress thermal insulation with straw filled jute blankets .
Yurt Notes & Calculator: Updated infos on thermal insulation with straw filled jute blankets. .
Mon, October 30, 2006:
Yurt Notes & Calculator: More infos and calculator assistance for pieslice-wise roof canvas .
Sun, October 22, 2006:
Yurt / Ger Diary: More updates on progress of new place and its setup .
Yurt Notes & Calculator: Added more detailed information about "attached room" option and calculator .
Mon, October 9, 2006:
Yurt / Ger Diary: After couple of weeks I updated the diary with new entries (Fall Approaching, New Place Found, Preparing Moving etc) .
Wed, September 20, 2006:
Yurt Notes & Calculator: Added overview how to erect a yurt with photos .
Sat, September 9, 2006:
Yurt / Ger Diary: Visited Claudius Kern, a few photos of his two level yurt .
Yurt Notes & Calculator: More details on options to bind the lattice wall / khana .
Wed, August 30, 2006:
Star Dome Diary: Included also a small calculator to get an idea of the bending of the bow segments .
Sat, August 26, 2006:
Star Dome Diary: Updates on synthetics material for the bows, also tests with bamboo and calculations .
Mon, August 21, 2006:
Yurt Notes & Calculator: More details on wall / khana section junction methods, even and odd amount of junctions/poles, half and full twin junctions. .
Sun, July 23, 2006:
Home: Included information about clustering, and extended thoughts on site characteristics .
Fri, July 7, 2006:
Yurt Notes & Calculator: More detailed instruction how to make a door based on vertical laths .
Yurt / Ger Diary: More photos of door construction (vertical laths based) .
Fri, June 30, 2006:
Star Dome Diary: More details on the leaf-cover, and pipe junctions, and how bows (pipes) connect to the base .
Tue, June 13, 2006:
Star Dome Diary: First version .
Wed, May 31, 2006:
Yurt / Ger Diary: Photos of two wheels / toonos I'm working on (not yet finished), and a couple of wonderful fotos of a sunset of the last day of May 2006 .
Mon, May 29, 2006:
Home: Added some information on how to select a site and preparation .
Sat, May 6, 2006:
Miscellaneous Domes: Included the crownless bow dome model, and renamed it from Misc to Misc Domes .
Fri, May 5, 2006:
Miscellaneous Domes: Included various dome models works - and separated Material Notes from it .
Star Dome: Extensions such as skylight, door construction and alternative bows, and photos of a model construction. .
Wed, April 26, 2006:
Yurt Notes & Calculator: Update on thermal insulation .
Fri, April 21, 2006:
Yurt / Ger Diary: Updated diary with few photos of repairing skylight (dried tape replaced) .
Tue, April 18, 2006:
Star Dome: Added general calculator (simple one), plus canvas calculator, along with more detailed illustrations. .
Bow Dome.dist: Added more full length bows (reaching entire half sphere) models in Misc Domes. .
Wed, April 12, 2006:
Miscellaneous Domes: First version, linked Material Notes, and added links to Monolithic Domes, and Solid Yurts .
Tue, April 11, 2006:
Star Dome: First version, first calculator, and simple construction plan .
Mon, April 10, 2006:
Geodesic Dome: Added some thoughts on pro and contra geodesic dome .
Mon, March 6, 2006:
Yurt / Ger Diary: Interior photos and a video-clip added .
Wed, February 22, 2006:
Geodesic Dome Notes & Calculator: Added 4/8 sphere cover calculator taken from Wigwam-section, and photos of the .
Sun, February 19, 2006:
Bow Dome.dist: Lot's of improvements, bow calculator using bezier curves, canvas caculator, and notes. .
Mon, February 13, 2006:
Yurt Notes & Calculator: Added more pictures of wall composition, and inserted a page break, now 5 pages totally. .
Sun, February 12, 2006:
Wigwam: Added half-sphere formulas an its symbols .
Sat, February 11, 2006:
Wigwam: Added half-sphere roof canvas calculator, provides shape and canvas lane measurements .
Fri, January 20, 2006:
Wigwam: First version, with wigwam calculator to calculate bows with a given nbows and diameter. .
Wed, January 11, 2006:
Yurt Notes & Calculator: Minor refinements and additions. .
Sun, January 8, 2006:
Bow Dome.dist: First version with a couple of bow dome types. .
Sat, January 7, 2006:
Yurt / Ger Diary: Added more pictures, added more insulation layers. .
Wed, December 21, 2005:
Yurt Notes & Calculator: Added toono/wheel interactive sketch .
Fri, November 25, 2005:
Yurt Notes & Calculator: Added photos of toono cover construction .
Yurt / Ger Diary: More photos, first real snow, roof cover construction photos added as well .
Fri, November 11, 2005:
Yurt Notes & Calculator: Added more information on Insulation and Stove Pipe positioning with photos how I did it. .
Tue, November 8, 2005:
Yurt / Ger Diary: Updated the last days with photos, yurt erected with raincover and thermal insulation, preparing the interior .
Sat, October 29, 2005:
Yurt Notes & Calculator: Floor calculator rearranged and floor rendering .
Yurt Notes & Calculator: Improved yurt rendering .
Sun, October 23, 2005:
Yurt / Ger Diary: Added photos to the last days entries, toono, roof cover, and door construction .
Mon, October 17, 2005:
Yurt / Ger Diary: Rain cover done, toono cover finished with clear PVC, and sew main cotton roof canvas, and attached cords on wall canvas to bind them. .
Fri, October 7, 2005:
Yurt / Ger Diary: Premiere yurt put up, without cover as of now .
Wed, October 5, 2005:
Yurt / Ger Diary: Making of crown-wheel (toono) and its cover .
Yurt Notes & Calculator: More on floor building .
Sun, October 2, 2005:
Yurt Notes & Calculator: Floor calculator, and more info on building the floor .
Tipi: Canvas calculation fixed .
Yurt Notes & Calculator: Canvas calculation fixed .
Yurt Notes & Calculator: More details on toono cover using clear PVC .
Thu, September 29, 2005:
Yurt Notes & Calculator: htot corrected (both javascript & draw) .
Mon, September 26, 2005:
Yurt Notes & Calculator: Details on door construction (example) .
Sun, September 25, 2005:
Yurt Notes & Calculator: Added more details on khana, especially the termination of the khana-section .
Sat, September 24, 2005:
Yurt Notes & Calculator: Corrected n-polygon toono calculator for l0..2 .
Yurt Notes & Calculator: More information on the khana and details on the door .
Fri, September 23, 2005:
Yurt / Ger Diary: Making of the khana .
Yurt Notes & Calculator: Corrected npoles, now assume 6cm for top and bottom extra by default. .
Sat, September 17, 2005:
Yurt Notes & Calculator: Added small toono n-segment calculator .
Yurt / Ger Diary: Starting the yurt diary .
Fri, September 16, 2005:
Tipi: Updated infos on Extension: Upgrading Size .
Yurt Notes & Calculator: Added more detailed wall canvas calculation (hint if multiple lanes are required) .
Tue, September 13, 2005:
Geodesic Dome Notes & Calculator: More photos of the 4V model .
Tipi: Took my notes out of the page and separated it into the Tipi Notes .
Tipi: Separated the notes from the main tipi page .
Tipi: Added information about tipi extensions .
Mon, September 12, 2005:
Material Notes: First version .
Sun, September 11, 2005:
Geodesic Dome Notes & Calculator: Added 4V Model photos .
Fri, September 9, 2005:
Tipi Diary: Included the tipi upgrade with photos .
Tipi: Added tipi sketch with human height comparison (alike yurt and dome calculators) .
Wed, September 7, 2005:
Geodesic Dome Notes & Calculator: On the fly rendering of dome sketch (incl. human height comparison) .
Mon, September 5, 2005:
Geodesic Dome Notes & Calculator: Added cover Acover information .
Sat, September 3, 2005:
Geodesic Dome Notes & Calculator: Added 4V 4/8 Dome information .
Geodesic Dome Notes & Calculator: Added more infos on Real Life Application .
Yurt: More introduction infos, link sorting. .
Fri, September 2, 2005:
Yurt Notes & Calculator: Minor updates on roof canvas, added illustration .
Fri, August 26, 2005:
Geodesic Dome Notes & Calculator: Real Life Application notes added, about cover and such .
Thu, August 18, 2005:
Yurt Notes & Calculator: Roof lanes calculation added (to patch one big canvas) .
Tue, August 16, 2005:
Yurt Notes & Calculator: Toono (crown wheel) construction added, and αkhana flexible (usually 90 °). .
Mon, August 15, 2005:
Geodesic Dome Notes & Calculator: First version, with 2V 4/8 and 3V 3/8 & 5/8 Sphere .
Sun, August 14, 2005:
Yurt Notes & Calculator: more detailed illustrations, more description in results .
Thu, August 11, 2005:
Yurt Notes & Calculator: nlaths corrected. .
Tue, August 9, 2005:
Yurt Notes & Calculator: First public release, yurt interested people informed. .
Mon, August 8, 2005:
Home: First version. .
Thu, January 1, 1970:
Ring Dome: .
