so "infinite angles on truth"?

so the truth is apparently there somwhere, has its place in the center of a fleeting moment... something is there very pressious wanting to be seen. I know its not something to shout about... then we might miss it out... but its there just like a red hat in a green forrest, not at all shy or wanting not to be seen.. more like a glad artist singing in the rain... a person who has just found love, because even though the pain we have went through is just far to much to grasp it, just bye seeing what has been hidden in the shadows, seeing a new glorious day approching, the face of the sun, the essensials, in clarity, seeing that there is nothing more to be afraid of. The truth is here upon the doorstep. We can look and see togeather what is, what has been and and what we need. Its all right here.


And we know the way.

By instinct.


Nature is guiding us... inside and outside, in the middle, gently, step bye step to more knowledge about plants and the land, and how animals live.. staying more and more there.. walking, sitting, picking berries and plants, making a shelter, study with the hand, the nose and the tonge...

yes.. making a shelter?

about this we can chat a lot... and make experimennts

I like best the idea of making something out of the materials that are there, on the spot... this prinsiple is so remarkably clearly seen in our the history of the home. Like the Icelandic turfhouse and stone house in a land of almost only turf and stone... mostly only stone in Ferojan Islands and Sheatlands islands and snow and turf and stone in Greenland and skins in northern America and trees and skins in Finnland and whool in Mongolia and leaves and pinns in Afrika and South-Asia etc...

So using the materials you have a lot of on the spot you are is the most common prinsiple we have in the older culture... the one before the industry and money times.

Yes I am from Iceland so I like to talk about the stone houses and the turf-houses. This is actually the only profession i have ever had. To be a house-maker in Iceland old fashion.

Stone houses:

To build out of only stone was more common in the south of Iceland and perhps east west sides where the fjords where with almost no low-land. The fishermans huts.
To find flat stones for the roof is very important... So the building sight might be considered close to a "mine" of flat stones.
Then there are many ways to do this ofcourse.. But I like the circle-form best. The old kot, also called borg. Its like iglo of the Eskimos in prinsip but with stones its heavier and therefore good stones are more safe than very rounded... But many stonewalls where made double up to the shoulder or so stright up and then not as thick with flat stones leaning out away from the center and down, so water will run out and down but not in, for the roof. So it comes out as a dome of stones who can not fall in, as it is too narrow, no space to fall in.

Door and windows can be made but the old stile is to have only a door and then a closable opening at the top

This kind of construction is without any wooden frame but variations can be made with woodden frames in it. Like the gamma bye the Sami people.

On the outside it looks like a hill or a mountain..

Turf is pritty much done the same way but the difference is this how to get the material. Turf we need to get from the wet-land. Wetlands are rear but in Iceland and Siberia and Alaska etc.
There are warious forms used. And this has to be done with very sharp knifes. Then it nedds to dry and to stack it up in a kot is only half of the job or less. But these kinds of houses are warmer than the stony ones... It was most popular in the dryer zones like inland in the north, but all over the country turf was used with the stones, and between then to go the middle way somehow and make them more isolated and cosy...

The Lavoo form the Lapps, the kota of the Finns and the Jurta in Mongoly and Siberia and the TP are all a variation of the Icelandic Borg kot and Greenlandish Iglo, a shealter around the fire, a vulcanic form, reminding us of our origen from the vulcan in the deep sea.

The relative part in the old shelter making is the material, depending on a relative factor of a trweller, always in a new situation, new landscape´s call for new materials.

But the truth here is the vulcan form, the original idea... a flame inside a hill...

later called a house... but when it became a box with a flame inside, it lost something vital

what is the box representing for us?

It feels like it has become a jail-house, somehow suffocating... it has lost the truth also... u dont see a hill... a mountain with a flame inside... suns little egg.... the flame as the little sun....

something vital and wonderful is lost in the boxhouse...

some people want to talk a lot about dynamics in the modernism and would try to tell us a circular turfhouse is static and uninteresting

on the other hand, for me the curcle is dynamic and the box is static...
the circle is like an inviting danceflor with a cosmic scy and beside circle can moove whele the box is almost unmooveable... and an arkitecture made bye those living in the house is more dynamick in my æs than sold flats etc arcitecture. And a turfhouse man can make a new room wherever he or she wants if a guest comes and likes to stay... pritty dynamick all this.... old stile´s and really ecological... just nature.... and imagine if you make a dome of stones, especially cristals and then place turf on that, you are living in a soft wholistic orgonhouse. Orgonboxes of Wilhelm Reich a pupil of Freud, where made with a organic and unorganic layers with the unorganic flat (often a metal) on the innermost part. So energy is drawn in with the organic material and reflected out bye the unorganic flat ones on the insides. This was made in blankets also and sometimes 1 mayer, sometimes 2 or 3 or 4 layers... the more layers, the more powerfully it would draw life energy in. But many layers proofed to be to strong "radiation", some people would burn themselfs. My feeling is that one layer is the right amount, max 2 layers in special rooms. Well... this was perhaps a little jump with the old nature house but this is what happens in caves... they can draw in certain freequencies and leave out other ones. Some say a special blue light is to be seen only in special caves.

This is way I can not make houses out of turf in all countries. I can make it in Iceland yes and Canada perhaps and Alaska and Siberia... possible more places but not in Sahara ... or in India...
I can hardly find a good wetland in Sweden.. well..perhaps and at best, far north... Finland and Norway have it also and Russia

but I dont need to make houses only out of turf. I can make a house from any material that is found in great quantities... well i guess, but i like to learn the tradishion of each place, how to do things..... of course experiment also, but in many cases, or most cases each local tradishion has a unic solution on everything... sometimes a very clever one and brave one and artistic.

like those indians living on man made floting islands on a very cold lake high up in the mountains in Peru "( The Uros are a group of 70 man-made islands floating in Lake Titicaca, at an altitude of 12,500 feet.) Their inhabitants are legendary to mainlanders, thanks to a bizarre and precarious lifestyle built entirely around one plant: the totora reed. In fact, the islands are made by joining clods of earth-like floating roots and overlaying them with a large quantity of cut reeds, creating a base that is firm enough to support huts made of totora and nimble human beings. Walking on the islands feels like wading through a bedding of straw laid over a waterbed -- you have to keep your wits about you." all this chapter comes from here:

http://www.andrys.com/mfrance.html

just an example of how strange it can be, almost as extreem as the Iglo of the eskimos.

They litterally walk on water,.. and sleep on it