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Continuing along the alternative housing theme, we’ve also compiled a collection of internet links on quonset hut living. Many of these links also contain interior and exterior design images. As with the yurt research, we have a quonset hut slideshow on our computer and will work to get that up on youtube.com so those of you who are interested can view it.
For now, here are the internet links to peruse as you like. Please note that when I cut and paste these documents into the blogging software, some of the items tend to wrap no matter how I edit them. At some point, I hope to have time to enter the links one by one without the lengthy URL addresses, but for now I thought it was more important just to get the yurt, quonset and other alternative housing information up. Enjoy.
http://nontraditionalhousing.tribe.net/thread/83839c99-8caf-4ab5-8160-d86f4290c1bc#fac13393-10a0-485b-ba28-e775ba3d5a9b Discussion thread for Quonset hut living. Mentions pictures.
http://home.earthlink.net/~dectiri/OuterSpace/CulvrtHs.htm Building a house out of a culvert. I included this one because the structure of the culvert is very similar to the Quonset hut and the interior design issues should be quite similar as well. Another plus? According to the article, this is one dirt cheap option!
http://home.earthlink.net/~dectiri/MTQuonst.htm Web page on building a Quonset house and covering it with earth for extra insulation.
http://www.theind.com/feature2.asp?CID=974872323 Article with interior design images of a Quonset hut home. Contemporary but homey.
http://www.geocities.com/dino1463/realestate.html A listing for a Quonset hut residence and store. Has image.
http://quonsetpoint.artinruins.com/quonset_hut.htm Article with older images of Quonset huts.
http://www.axwoodfarm.com/house/ Fairly detailed essay on one person’s quest to build a Quonset home, including the engineering to have it buried somewhat for insulation purposes. Numerous links here detailing the research, scale model sample images, the works. These guys ended up going with a modified design and not totally the Quonset, but several of the design principles could apply.
http://www.webdurango.com/shared-special-sections/home_imp_2004/a_sculpting.asp Article with interior images of a gentleman who incorporated a Quonset hut into his home.
http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2005/12/quonset.html Quonset blog with images. http://www.greenhomebuilding.com/ezines/ezine13.htm A Quonset hybrid home. http://www.recentpast.org/types/quonset/ Quonset article with images. http://www.energyideas.org/topics/default.cfm?s_qmr=50&s_qob=title&o=h,b,bs,t,ts,ds&c=h,b,2,t,1,2829 Resource information for insulating steel buildings to avoid moisture condensation problems and other issues. http://209.59.129.163/zs/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?p=146953&sid=d6bea0f17a6bd15eeb3993b6dc925898 A more survivalist type of Quonset discussion thread / group. http://www.ee-one.com/new-2815236-4628.html Insulated quonset discussion posting.
http://www.usbuildingsdirect.com Sells steel buildings. 1-800 – 416 – 4482 .
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/quonsets/ Discussion group for Quonset huts and people who live in them or steel rib homes. Members may share photos, ideas, etc.
http://www.nationaltrust.org/magazine/archives/arch_story/111403.htm Has some quonset hut structure images.
