[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 !

[asbn]

Dear Jasmina

You may contact Dragana Marjanovic at dragana at kucacuvarkuca.com,
she is from Serbia and a member of the European Straw Bale discussion  
list.

Or maybe the Croatian NGO Green Network can help you, as they are
doing some procects with straw.
contact is: Drazen Simlesa at Drazen.Simlesa at pilar.hr

all the best
Herbert Gruber
-----------------
asbn - austrian strawbale network
3720 Ravelsbach, Baierdorf 6
Tel. 02958-83640
asbn at baubiologie.at
www.baubiologie.at



Am 17.04.2013 um 22:42 schrieb 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
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