THESE are so ATTRACTIVE the FREEFORM way. With VERY INTERESTING SHAPES and MOVEMENTS in some of these designs. They are ACTUALLY PRETTY COOL and a fun BUILDING and such WONDERFULLY ARTISTIC.
They SAY COB HOUSES LAST FOREVER a FEW HUNDRED YEARS or MORE.
LOVE PROJECT IDEAS
HAVEN’T you always wanted to do these COOL PROJECTS – MINI towns and COMMUNITIES are so AWESOME, for the HOMELESS and BACKPACKERS and RETREATS – SUPER COOL PLACES to SHARE and LIVE in.
Cob Houses – Live Debt Free with Sustainable Development
Sustainable Development – Photos of cob homes that I took on the West Coast of Canada
Building with Cob: Post-Collapse Solution for Shelter
http://www.thiscobhouse.com/how-to-bu…
I see natural building, especially using cob, as a practical solution for our future situation. As we face societal collapse, people are banding together and moving outside the cities to start new lives for themselves. Building a new house out of cob and natural materials is a practical solution for shelter in the coming years.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwFKyJ…
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Natural Building and a New Sense of the Earth
Have you ever dreamed of another kind of life? Not the job that you don’t want to go off to in the morning, or the house you have to keep on paying for year after year, but a life closer to the earth, a little place in the country that you build yourself, a garden and some solar panels for electricity, time to be with those you love and to do the things you most want to do. An impossible dream? Maybe not. Right now people all over are working to create an alternative to a consumer society that gives us less and less satisfaction and is more and more destructive to the earth and to us, as well. Explore the world of natural building and meet some of its pioneers who are creating beautiful and inexpensive houses out of earth and straw, houses that you can make, too. This is a way of building that can transform how you see the earth and yourself. Visit: Linda Smiley and Ianto Evans who pioneered the use of building with earth, straw and sand called cob in the U.S. and who now run the North American School of Natural Building in Coquille, Oregon where they and their students have used natural building methods to create a little village. Coenraad and Courtney Rogmans who took a piece of undeveloped land, built straw bale and cob buildings complete with solar electricity and a water catchment system, and who teach natural building workshops. Taylor Starr at White Oak Farm, an organic farm and educational center, which is putting the final touches on a striking timber-framed straw bale and cob community center. Brendan Flanagan, with his family and friends, turned a remote wooded hillside into a snug community of homes and gardens. Rob Bolman, an advocate of incorporating natural building techniques into mainstream building practices, who created an ecovillage in the middle of Eugene, Oregon, and who speaks passionately about the link between natural building and social justice. Meka Bunch who after only a week-long workshop, built his own elegant cob cottage and who works sharing natural building with people abroad. And Kiko Denzer, a sculptor and cob builder, and his wife Hannah, an organic gardener and baker, who transformed a dilapidated outbuilding in the country into a cozy cob home surrounded by beautiful gardens. For more on this subject go to
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Cob tiny house from start to finish
A cob cabin pictorial. See a tiny cob house built from the ground up! To learn more, visit http://www.HouseAlive.org.
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Cob building time lapse
This is the cottage we built at a remote children’s community on the border with Bhutan, north eastern India. It was built during our 8-week apprenticeship, with about 12 people.
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Building a Cob Oven
This wood fired cob oven was built in part through a Permaculture Design Course in San Diego at Higher Elevation Permaculture.
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LES Full Tour
Living Earth Structures, Michael Elliott, Micah Elliott, Cob Building, Adobe building, community oven,
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cob construction Living Earth Structures
Here is the Cob work of Living Earth Structures
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Molio galia – Clay power
Uploaded on Aug 4, 2009
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Building with the Earth
At Cottage Grove, Oregon, a group of remarkable people have come together to create buildings out of earth that teach us how to live more simply and closer to the earth.
We are going to meet: * Michael G. Smith, who trained as a civil engineer, but turned, instead, to this more ecologically sane form of building * Ianto Evans, a Welsh landscape architect, who adapted traditional European earth building, or cob, so we could stop using our houses to hide from nature * and Linda Smiley, a therapist with a special interest in sculpting sacred spaces.
And we will visit two beautiful cob buildings created at a fraction of the cost of conventional housing and see people from all walks of life, with no prior experience, mixing cob and building with it. The Cob Cottage Company is now in Coquille, Oregon. Their website is http://www.cobcottage.com/
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First Earth [full]
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