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Ferrocement Garage - page one Cultural & Ecological designing			Back to Normal
	In the foreground is the area where the building will be constructed. "Auntie Spud" - my 1988 Ford Festiva - is parked near the end of the existing driveway. The building area was the flattest adjacent space, was free of trees, and was off to the side at the end of the driveway, thus not blocking access to the core of the property beyond the end of the driveway. These two views are from the other side of the area (taken from where the car is in the previous image). The area was rough terrain to begin with, and rock and debris from the original driveway construction had been pushed into the area. I hired a bobcat operator to come in and move some of the debris, knock down some of the high spots and spread and pack cinder to level the area. Above you can see the bobcat at work, and at left the driveway extension/building site after the bobcat work was completed. Again looking towards the end of the original driveway, this shows the extension after the bobcat work was complete. I have placed preliminary yellow-flagged stakes marking rounded corners and door locations for the structure. Here the vertical rebar has been placed at the corner areas and footings poured around it. To the left, rebar for one side of the building has been driven into the ground, awaiting footings. A string line establishing roof slope can be seen across the top of the rebar pieces. The yellow-flagged stakes in center foreground mark the rear door opening. Temporary forms (scrap 2x4 and/or small masonry blocks) are in place for the rebar footings. The roof slope string line is more clearly visible here. The piece of roofing at center right shelters concrete and cement sacks from the rain. View from end of driveway - yellow flagging at left marks rebar locations for the side of the building, which will be built up and over the lava slope. Concrete footings are in place around rebar on right. The water tank seen on its side to the rear was moved behind the building site early on, because the building will block the only easy way to get the tank back onto the property.
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