[GSBN] Fwd: To: John Swaringen and Andy Fitanides...I deeply hope that this letter will reach you and that you will want to help me, I wrote from Europe !

[John Swearingen]

We received this...would anyone like to help?

John

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From: Papessa <pappessa at gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 2:23 PM
Subject: To: John Swaringen and Andy Fitanides...I deeply hope that this
letter will reach you and that you will want to help me, I wrote from
Europe !
To: jswearingen at skillful-means.com


Dear John and Andy,


I find your contact on you site :

http://www.skillful-means.com

I am writing to you from Europe, Serbia, Nis.

First I need ask for an apology for my bad English writing,I use google
traslator such assistance.



My name is Jasmina Aleksic, I have 53 years.

I am alone in the world....

In a tragic car accident I lost the only child, a son ... he was only 27
years old.... He was an expert in the field of IT technology.

I have huge problems of life, I have no job anymore....I have some small
savings, which I hope to build a house of straw, because it is the cheapest.

My friends donated me a patch of land  at present around my town, Nis  in
one village,30km from Nis,(altitude is 680 meters), it is very clean place
for living, a lake is near.

(see the link:
http://www.krajkovac.rs/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=17&Itemid=15
  )

There I  will be able to survive by working in permaculture and other
organic and natural way of growing food,in the village there is a family
that produces shiitake mushrooms.

Please, if it's possible for you to help me regarding the plan for this
house, no larger than 60-70 m2, with basement.

This position is at an angle, I think of the basement under the entire
house, or partly because the terrain where the building allows it.(see the
photos).


With the budget that I have, it would be possible for me, I hope so, to
build something similar....


*The biggest problem for the construction of such houses is in fact how to
perform a wooden structure.*

Here in Serbia is very difficult to find just the right directions when
building a house of straw in question, one of the architect does not deal
with it seriously...

I prefer the second model construction, not Nebraska method, such as the
two examples,(you tube link) primarily because of the climate here.

There are a couple of examples of construction,here in Serbia, see the
link:

1.    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Joi3xU586jQ

2.    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNOtTP7NcyM

3.   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVACTuLa0bY



The first two links are connected to the construction of a family house.They
used wooden internal structure to get the gallery (which can serve as a
floor).

But, they had no a project for it,  they are made house with master of
wooden structures and his advice and practical experience and knowledge in
the construction of wooden structures.

The third link is a little different,ecologically is not properly, because
of the cement plaster and metal wire.

Please help me because I really do not know how to do this alone ....God
bless you....!


Jasmina Aleksic

Serbia,Nis

+381 63 81 56 125





-- 
John Swearingen
Skillful Means Design & Construction
2550 9th Street   Suite 209A
Berkeley, CA   94710
510.849.1800 phone
510.849.1900 fax

Web Site:  http://www.skillful-means.com
Blog:         https://skillfulmeansdesign.wordpress.com
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