In the later part of the 20th century modern designs of roundhouse eco buildings were constructed with materials such as cob cordwood or straw bale walls and reciprocal frame green roofs.
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This can be a big advantage if you have acces to young trees or bamboo for polewood but no access to milled timber.
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The weakest component of a home is the roof.
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Traditional builders have improved construction methods of exterior walls but still frame the roofs with lumber which leads to the most common point of failure in fires and high winds.
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One of the advantages of a reciprocal roof frame is that you can use roundwood timbers to make it.
The decahome roof frame kit includes pre cut lvl rafers and purlins.
This video tutorial will guide you through the steps it takes t.
The theory of how to build a reciprocal roof is fairly straight forward.
Using this method to erect the first rafters no scaffolding is needed.
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First the rafters then the purlins then the 2x4 blocking more 2x4 blocking may be installed flush to the bottom.