Designing and Building the Home Foundation

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 Foundation layout 
 Foundation layout 
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Typical foundation calculations
Typical foundation calculations
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Basics of a home foundation
Basics of a home foundation
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Home foundation details
Home foundation details
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 Building a rubble wall 
 Building a rubble wall 
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Corregated concrete shell house
Corregated concrete shell house

Ken Kern, author of The Owner-Built Home and The Owner-Built Homestead, is an amazing fellow and everyone interested in decentralist, back-to-the-land, rational living should know of his work. Back in 1948 he began collecting information on low-cost, simple and natural construction materials and techniques. He combed the world for ideas, tried them and started writing about his experiments. Eventually, Mildred Loomis started publishing Kern’s articles in The Interpreter, Way  Out and Green Revolution. Ken has also issued a three year series of pieces (called Technic) on his own and a greenhouse-sun pit design of his has been featured in Organic Gardening.

This series of Ken Kern’s work is being taken both from The Owner-Built Home (already published) and The Owner-Built Homestead (to be published).

–MOTHER EARTH NEWS

The Owner-Built Homestead, Volume 3, Chapter 1 The Home Foundation

  • Published on Nov 1, 1971
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