[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 !

Wed Apr 17 22:15:50 UTC 2013

Dear Jasmina Aleksic, (and GSBNers)

It is difficult to provide support from half-way around the world.  You may be able to find help and information from a closer location in Europe.  I suggest that you contact the European strawbale building discussion list.  http://amper.ped.muni.cz/mailman/listinfo/strawbale  Send all messages to:  Strawbale at amper.ped.muni.cz<mailto:Strawbale at amper.ped.muni.cz>

Good luck,
Derek
Derek Roff
derek at unm.edu<mailto:derek at unm.edu>

On Apr 17, 2013, at 2:42 PM, John Swearingen wrote:

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

John

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From: Papessa <pappessa at gmail.com<mailto: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<mailto:jswearingen at skillful-means.com>

Dear John and Andy,

I find your contact on you site :

http://www.skillful-means.com<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<tel:%2B381%2063%2081%2056%20125>

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Skillful Means Design & Construction
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