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Is it possible to build a house without a Foundation?
One of the main requirements to build a house without foundations is the presence of hard and loose soil. Of course, in some cases can this requirement be ignored, but then the technology of construction of houses will be much more difficult.
Variants of construction of the house without Foundation a lot, here are just some of the existing:
frame technology
The frame is a relatively easy construction. With this technology around the world collected a lot of homes. In the construction of houses on frame technology necessary to provide additional reinforcement, however, despite this work will cost is still cheaper classic Foundation.
tires
Very interesting solution is the Foundation of automobile tires. In this case, escapes the pit depth of not more than Continue reading
10 thousand years ago
To the rear of the junction she bent down. But then there is not a decorative treatment and targeted production of different size of stone for buildings. In the Macho Piccho in the mountains, also traces of stone extraction for construction. What tool/tools this was done will probably remain a mystery. From the analysis of the surveyed structures could be accurately determined that their builders could with equal ease to process stone of any kind in any spatial directions. For the ancients it was so easy and relaxed that is simply breathtaking and even imagination can not paint a picture of such works. Such are incredibly difficult to reproduce in the present. Ancient just cut out of rock blocks of the form that they desired and they were immediately used. The drilling installation – they can be used when making various holes, ubiquitous in all ancient complexes.
He could explain the perfectly smooth internal surface units in areas of the joint. However, what these settings could be hard to say. Its use could explain the treatment plots of whole rocks and mining rocks. Such processing methods can also be seen in the structural elements that seem to be poured concrete but are actually monolithic fragments of ancient buildings. Continue reading
Peru and Bolivia long before the Incas
Another type of masonry, which attracted our attention in Cusco, has left a very ambiguous impression. This clutch of relatively small (although sometimes reach hundreds of kilograms) of mainly rectangular blocks of granite or basalt, laid without any mortar.
On the one hand, this style of masonry radically different from the megalithic polygonal. In addition, some of the houses where there are areas of walls with similar walls date back to the period already already after the Spanish conquest. On the other hand, there are a number of reasons, which makes you wonder about the possibility of creating of the masonry is not Spanish, and not even by the Incas, and a very different civilization.
First, the Spaniards, in full compliance with the building traditions and skills of the Old world – widely used solution. Laying stone blocks on each other without mortar for them it was unusual and even strangers. Continue reading
