Round House Roof

In the later part of the 20th century modern designs of roundhouse eco buildings were constructed where with materials such as cob cordwood or straw bale walls and reciprocal frame green roofs.

Round house roof.

See more ideas about round house round house plans cob house. Round home kits round homes build with decahome frame kits a 45ft. Using this method to erect the first rafters no scaffolding is needed. A roundhouse is a type of house with a circular plan usually with a conical roof.

The theory of how to build a reciprocal roof is fairly straight forward. One of the advantages of a reciprocal roof frame is that you can use roundwood timbers to make it. What ideas do people have for roofing. This can be a big advantage if you have acces to young trees or bamboo for polewood but no access to milled timber.

I am building an adobe rock and wood round house with a reciprocal roof. Living roof would be nice but we have heavy frost in winter and don t want an ugly dead roof half the year. The decahome roof frame kit includes pre cut lvl rafers and purlins.