Arched roof or quonset style buildings, plans

[farminghandyman]

In the past month or so there have a few threads on arched roof or quonset style buildings,

finally found a set of plans on how to build one,

and jsut for the fun of it a little history on "Quonset" buildings,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quonset_hut
http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq75-1.htm


Plans
http://www.ag.ndsu.nodak.edu/abeng/plans/5344.pdf

http://www.ag.ndsu.nodak.edu/abeng/plans/5653.pdf

another style

http://www.ag.ndsu.nodak.edu/abeng/plans/5221.pdf

http://www.ag.ndsu.nodak.edu/abeng/plans/5687.pdf

additional building plans, of arched and other types of farm buildings
http://www.ag.ndsu.nodak.edu/abeng/machineplans.htm
http://www.ag.ndsu.nodak.edu/abeng/p...struction1.htm

[highlands]

We built a barrel vault arched roof of ferro-cement for our tiny cottage. It was very doable for our family (2 adults, 14 year old, 9 year old, 3 year old) doing it all by hand. The results are extremely strong and durable. You can see some posts from my blog at:

http://sugarmtnfarm.com/blog/2006/12...ction-pan.html

http://sugarmtnfarm.com/blog/2006/12...lf-poured.html

http://sugarmtnfarm.com/blog/2006/12/more-roofing.html

http://sugarmtnfarm.com/blog/2006/12...f-roof-on.html

http://www.google.com/search?&q=site%3Asugarmtnfarm.com+tiny+cottage+barrel+vault+roof
We have also used this same technique to build various animal shelters, one of which we buried the roof of to make it earth sheltered - a test of where we're headed with the tiny cottage...

Cheers

-Walter
Sugar Mountain Farm
in the mountains of Vermont
http://SugarMtnFarm.com/blog/
http://HollyGraphicArt.com/
http://NoNAIS.org

[farminghandyman]

looks like a lot of work but well worth it, looks like you did an excellent job,