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Cob cob in Italy (fwd)Cedterra cedterra at tin.itWed Dec 16 23:09:22 CST 1998
>From: "Cedterra" <cedterra at tin.it> >To: <duckchow at mail2.greenbuilder.com>, <lorax at ap.net> >Subject: cob in Italy >Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1998 22:58:29 +0100 >X-MSMail-Priority: Normal >X-Priority: 3 >MIME-Version: 1.0 > > >Dear Mike and Michael, > >Thanks for your quickly answer! > >I apologize for my bad knowledge of english, but i guess you will >understand me. > I write from Italy, in Abruzzo, a region with many old cob buildings.. In >1934 there was 7000 cob houses, now there are only 700. In the last year >the administration have make a recensment of this buildings, and now is >born a Documentation Center with the goal to improuve the conservation and >the reneval of this kind of architecture. > >We don't mind to make a museum, but to promote e different kind of relation >with the environment, and what is really interesting is to conserv all the >landscape around the cob houses. Therefor we are too interested to develop >a new cob architecture, to show what is possible to build with mud. > >As a Center we like to develop collborations and exchanges with groups, >association, architects and builders that are working with mud and >expecially with cob.I thank you for all the adress you have send me, thats >very usefull for me! > >I'm an architect and I have work in some building place in Belgium, >Holland, Suisse and Germany with different mud technics for not bearing >construction, but never with cob. >Now I'm helping to start this documentation center. > >About this building I have some (a lot of!) technical question, I hope you >like to help me somehow > >1) Offen theese old houses have no special basement and there are problems >of erosion for the running water. Is it god to make only an esternal >protection in stone or burn bricks for the first 60 cm.? Should we take >away the basement piece by piece and rebuild it with stones? > >2) This region have earthquakers problem, how is cob working? Actually the >low for earthquackers doesen't give the permission to meke new houses with >clay, how is the law in your region? Exist some law or scientific >information about cob somewhere? > >3) When you have an erosion on the wall, a deep erosion (about 20 cm) , >what do you do? Can you restore only with a new cob mixture? How to connect >the new with the old? Can you put some wooden frame or naels? > >4) How to make a plaster or a clay rendering on a old wall? > >5) There is a tradition of old cob buildings in your region? Have you >specialise handwarkers or building companies on it? > >After all theese serious poblems we have a nice September party every year, >visit US !! for the next Festa della Terra the first days of September >1999 , from the 2 to the 4th. > >thanks for your help! > >greetings > >barbara > > >P.S. >we are organising at the moment an international Photographical Competition >about raw earth, now we have ask the patronage to other european earth >national association like the Dacheverband Lehm for Germany, the IG Lehm >for Suisse and Austria, Terramorpho for Belgium and Holland, >Interaccion-Navapalos for Spain, and CRATerre, ICCROM and Icomos. >It can be very good to contact this Devon association, do you have too >their E mail or the telephone number? >Do you think is possible to extend this at America? Do you know some group >that can be interested? > I send you the presentation text. > >“L'uomo costruisce con le sue proprie mani, > la mano dell'uomo è affettuosa, >non conosce la forma quadrata. > Anche la terra è morbida, affettuosa. > E anche la pioggia è affettuosa, >la pioggia cade, le piace cadere, > le piace seguire forme affettuose. > Le mani dell'uomo >sono fatte per accarezzare >la donna la pioggia e la terra.” > >Diankouno Dolo dei Dogon > >“Non ho nessuna intenzione di mettere a nudo il mio crudo “ > >Anonimo italiano > >Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name="concfotograficoE.doc" >Content-Description: concfotograficoE (Documento Microsoft Word) >Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="concfotograficoE.doc" > >Attachment converted: Hard Disk:concfotograficoE.doc (WDBN/MSWD) (00002C69) >Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name="CFsponsor.doc" >Content-Description: CFsponsor (Documento Microsoft Word) >Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="CFsponsor.doc" > >Attachment converted: Hard Disk:CFsponsor.doc (WDBN/MSWD) (00002C6A)
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