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Amazing architect explains how to build your very own cardboard castle

With shoddy architects fobbing off dodgy plans for supposedly 
earthquake-resistant apartments that are actually really shaky, the 
durability of Japanese houses during natural disasters is under the 
spotlight more than ever before.

But now, Spa! (4/11) notes, one man has come up with a guide for 
building a cardboard box bungalow that, if not quite capable of 
withstanding a quake itself, may at least provide sturdy post-disaster 
shelter.
....
In a cardboard house, the expert says, walls are nothing more than 
shelters from the wind. He says this job can be performed even better by 
large plastic sheets. Nagashima adds that more effective cardboard 
houses' builders have paid more attention to getting their roofs right 
instead of focusing on walls. Nagashima stresses that it's important to 
make sure the roof is on an incline, so that any water that hits it when 
it rains will run off instead of pooling.

cont'd....
http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/waiwai/news/20060412p2g00m0dm007000c.html

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