[Cob] Horray WI COB! NBC = VBC

[Michael Blaha]

Awesome!
Marlin,
Please let us know more about your project as it comes closer to the 
date.  Good work, and nice watercolor pictures!

Here are some links for the Natural Building Convergence 2002:
http://www.cityrepair.org/nbc/

I think the new event is in the planning stages under the "Village 
Building Convergence 2004" name :
http://www.cityrepair.org/vbc/index.html
or just City Repair Project :
http://www.cityrepair.org/

People's Coop in P-town, OR
http://www.peoples.coop/index.html
This was the first commercial code approved use of cob ( infill ) in a 
the untied states... wasn't it ? Anyone know?

I have some pictures of Beautiful People's Coop during construction:

http://spirallic.net/portal/webmachine/peoples2003a.jpg
http://spirallic.net/portal/webmachine/peoples2003b.jpg
( I should credit Colin Brown for the pictures )

MN cobber,

m i c h a e l


 >
Hi All,

I was wondering if a date and location has been
decided for the next NBC out west.  I've tried
googling "Natural Building Colloquium" but all I find
is stuff from 2003 and the late 90s.  Does anyone
know?

Thanks,
Karen
 >
 >
> ( did you mean there is a Portland in WI? or Portland OR?
> >

> Marlin wrote:
>
>> Hey,
>>
>> Here in Madison, WI we have secured the go ahead to create a large 
>> educational Cob project at a local Co-op grocery (thanks goes to the 
>> People's Coop & Natural Building Colloquium in Portland for 
>> groundbreaking).
>>
>> We are finalizing the design with them as we speak, but appears to be 
>> Cob courtyard walls with possible benches and bread oven. To our 
>> knowledge it will be the first major earthen building project in the 
>> city of Madison. (See www.outtathebox.org - click on New Event and 
>> view the proposal document - final project will be similar!)
>>
>> Anyone interested in the upper midwest (or travel from who knows 
>> where too :) is invited to attend this Spring/Summer 04 education and 
>> exhibition, for free. Local advertising will be through the Willy St. 
>> Grocery Coop, local newspapers and EarthDay celebrations as well as 
>> internet sources. Contact info at outtathebox.org with questions.
>>
>> Feel free to pass along info as it's posted to these listservs. 
>> Hooray for the Great Lakes!
>>
>> Marlin Nissen
>
>
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