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Posted: 13th Sep 2004
A geo-dome!

1) Get many branches of trees, ideally about an inch in diameter.
2) Bind them with bailor twine or something similar into a kinda dome sahpe, remembering to leave an entrance/exit.
3) Cover holes in dome with suitable materials - flags, or throws or whatever you want to make it look pretty.


The more I think about it, the worse an idea it is however.

Posted: 13th Sep 2004
Easy.

4 wooden posts for the corners.
that corrugated plastic sheeting stuff for the roof.
4 nails.

you can guess what to do with them.

You might not have any walls though...



Hows that?

Posted: 13th Sep 2004
UCoF, I kind of wanted it to have a function and look pretty and the roof has to be able to come off.

nilid, thats kind of what I had in mind using willow canes.

I just posted this to see if you lot could come up with something mind blowingly simple but effective and pretty, that needs no planning permission........... I don't want much do I?

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Posted: 13th Sep 2004
A massive tent?

Posted: 13th Sep 2004
A tree house, the dont apparently need planning permission because they are not "buildings", even massive ones. Then again, this was on tv a while ago so it might be out of date now.

Give me a lever long enough and a place to stand and I can beat the world into submission.

Posted: 13th Sep 2004
Well its the new academic year so with all this lousey weather I'm glad we have a juggling club woohoo!
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Posted: 13th Sep 2004
when its a cage... like prison or school or in my case uni

Posted: 13th Sep 2004
You could always make one of these geodesic type things:


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There's loads of sites around that'll tell you how to go about making one, and you can cover it with just about anything. I'm planning to make one at some point, just because I can, mine's probably going to be covered with plastic sheeting, overlapping so water runs down the sides rather than into it.

But there's no sense crying over every mistake. You just keep on trying till you run out of cake.

Posted: 14th Sep 2004
some friends and I built a few geodomes, I cant remmeber the website for the photos, but anyhow - one was 13 metres in diameter, and then there was a 7.5m and 3 5m ones. a lotta work. I have 2 5m collapsed ones in my shed but the last guy to borrow one of them took all the bolts and then never returned em.... meh.

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Posted: 15th Sep 2004
a teepee! although it's not a great shape for spinning in unless you do at a crazy angle..... maybe you could get a really tall one then because it's a teepee it would be a temporary structure, AND you'd have a teepee!! I love teepees, they're great.

Or.... a better shape perhaps, a yurt..... those collapisble mongolian house, also temporary structures as they're collapsible, and they have walls and everything... againe might need to make it a bit taller for the purposes of poi perhaps.

OR..... go wiith the wicker dome/pergola thing and grow a nice big bushy climbing thing over it so that it fills in all the gaps and looks pretty and resists considerable wetness if not all of it....

OR............ a gazebo type structure thingymajig, and then you could get that materials they use for marquees, which may get a bit dirty but it's shiny and waterproofed so presumably easier to clean/more resistant to dirt. Of course... you could also get a marquee....

As for the temp/perm situation for planning, the materials you use, whether or not it has concrete foundations etc, all matter as to planning permission, i think if you can take it down, it could be any size you like... but i dunno, you'd have to check that, i remember watching an episode of ground force or home front or some such where they erected this huge sail in a garden but it was designed so that it counted as temporary.... of course that's another option - the huge sail option.....

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Posted: 16th Sep 2004
get something like a parachute and put it up on some long poles in the ground so they are leant outwards so they pull the parachute shape thingy ma gipit tight then brace them together with some wood that should give you enougth space.....

There may be one for everyone but what if there is two for three would that mean none for someone or did they start off without one....