Arch Professor Laura Joines and Vetruvian builder Duane Heil
Besant Hill School prefabricated music practice cube nearly ready for shipment for SLO to Ojai ( weighs about 3000 lbs)
Raymond and Duane in his living room
Duane's home designed by his architect wife Wendle Schoniger and built with a Vetruvian shell and roof
Water resistant cement in shower with shell trim
Shower has a door to the outside and outside shower curtain
section of tube fits snugly in group
Polystyrene panel with robotically produced grooves for galvanized steel tubes with rectangular cross section
detail of end of screw that pierced a tube on the other side of the panel and then pierced the inner wall of this other tube.
Long screws that sinch tubes on opposite sides of panel against the foam panel and to each other. Angle sheet metal runs along top and bottom and is screwed to the tubes. This forms the panel. It is then attached to metal tracks on top and bottom see http://www.vitruvianbuilt.com/index.html for diagrams
Notice triangel shaped panel. Computer cad files are turned into shop drawings and robotic machine cuts all the needed pieces no matter how complex
plate is scrwed on to metal tubes. Wooden beams are screwed on to the plate
Spaces are carved out of foam for wires and plumbing
Roof is made of this steel and foam panel system
Sheet metal diagonals for shear
Pipes travel in tunnels in foam behind the metal tubes
Inner walls can be balloon framing
Beams meet foam panels at L plates
Arch Paul Wolff inspects the joint
Heil's factory barn
The robotic cutting machine
Computer generates shop drawings and cutting list
router
grooves being cut
Child's room
suspended bed
