Stress Skin

Stress Skin
Originally uploaded by poolhouse1919.

Stress. I was in a conversation as of late when the subject of stress skin came up.
The idea of building with it. The name is so interesting. As a building technique it is a way of thinking differently. It is not very ecological, unless you consider the R factor and the use of reused materials such as chip board. There have been advances in the production of chip board but they are fundamentally out side of the safe building materials.
But I was in a conversation about stress skin. The conversation was at one point mostly about liner notes of just about every musician that could be thought of. But there was this one part that was about Stress Skin.
The poolhouse will get worked on tomorrow. The goal will to be to make a circle. 14 diameter circle betwen 8 and 9 feet of the ground. In a very center of the poolhouse.
In the near future it will be left open to the sky.
The stress skin is something that was very successfully used in one of the shanties the shanties last year. It has a number of advantages. It is light. It is ridgid and solid. It can be structural. One issue the media shanty has is the amount of space around the windows for structure. Stress skin may not work in such small situations as between the windows. But the name, stress skin. Such an interesting image. Many new homes and buildings are using various versions of stress skin. There is something not so intuitive about the product. Using it in a house can usurp a number of trades. The engineering of it is the kind of thing that someone who plans way ahead would like.
It must determined if the shanty will fit in the preposed roof opening. If it will not it might be something I need to consider. Does the shanty change shape to fit in the hole or does the openign change to fit the shanty?