Interested in building a house using insulated concrete form.
Can any architect do a design or does it need to be a specific architect who works with this form? If so, what is the best resource to find an architect experienced with ICF buildings?
I've seen two ICF buildings first hand in the architectural wild. The first was a house a guy built down the street from my childhood home. IIRC, he designed it himself, stacked the forms himself, and helped his brother-in-law who was a concrete subcontractor pour the concrete. Then it got interesting doing all the other work and I think he said something about never wanting to do it again. It turned out ok in the end though.
The other was a movie theater ... the perfect windowless box.
Apr 1, 20 8:11 pm ·
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ICF House Design
Interested in building a house using insulated concrete form.
Can any architect do a design or does it need to be a specific architect who works with this form?
If so, what is the best resource to find an architect experienced with ICF buildings?
thanks
is google broken?
ICF is a nightmare for most non-industrial applications.
If you're building anything other than a windowless box, almost any other construction system is going to be better.
I’d love to see the reaction of the architect when this person’s first request is not about design but about a ICF building.
I've seen two ICF buildings first hand in the architectural wild. The first was a house a guy built down the street from my childhood home. IIRC, he designed it himself, stacked the forms himself, and helped his brother-in-law who was a concrete subcontractor pour the concrete. Then it got interesting doing all the other work and I think he said something about never wanting to do it again. It turned out ok in the end though.
The other was a movie theater ... the perfect windowless box.
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