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Hyperadobe Step-by-Step
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From Superadobe, created by the Iranian Nader Khalili,
was developed Hyperadobe by Fernando Pacheco of
EcoOca in...
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EarthbagBuilding.
com
Sharing information and promoting earthbag building
Hyperadobe Step-by-Step
from mulher-e-cia.
blogspot.
com
From Superadobe, created by the Iranian Nader Khalili,
was developed Hyperadobe by Fernando Pacheco of
EcoOca in Brazil.
The big difference between the two is
that Superadobe uses woven polypropylene bags with
barbed wire between the layers, whereas Hyperadobe uses
a knit raschel, the same material used in packaging fruit.
This leads to less cost compared to the poly bags.
Raschel is a knitted fabric which resembles hand crocheted fabrics, lace fabrics, and nettings.
Raschel warp
knits contain inlaid connecting yarns in addition to columns of knit stitches.
The raschel need not be burned to receive the plaster; Fernando works it as a "roughcast" to receive natural
plaster.
With vertical walls there is no need for barbed wire between the layers because with the open
netting the soil of the bottom layer is merged with the new lay
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