Cob: Building Cob Home in the Dry Tropics

[Amanda Peck]

How does your climate differ from that of Yemen and other places in the 
middle east?  Where they have the 10-story cob/earthen buildings?  (of 
course if you are going up 10 stories, you really don't want thin walls, at 
least load-bearing thin walls.)



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David wrote:

    I live in the dry tropics of North Queensland, Australia.  We have 9
months of dry warm weather with 3 months of hot, very humid and occasionally
rainy weather.  Would this be a suitable climate to build a cob home in?  I
know cob walls can be built much thinner than the regular 2 - 3', but how
thin can they be built?  How can cob homes be modified to fit into tropical
climates?

cheers,

David

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