[Cob] any ideas for building cob on a hill?

[Joseph R Dupont]

I'm told .. split the difference on the minimal slope.
split level would be  nice two making it only necessary to put a
retaining wall at the midpoint of the building.
which way does it face??If it faced south you would be a luck person with
a hot air collector below the house.. natural convection.

how deep is the house going to be?   the norrower it is the less the
drop.
 The main thing is to put french drains to catch  the water up land and
dirvert it around the house.
you can put a mote further up to form a V to dirvert the surface water
too.
Any rock??
On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 08:05:08 -0600 greg <watchman at mcleodusa.net> writes:
> There's a property that my wife and i really like but the problem is
> that the only place to build on goes from 10 degree slope down for
> about 20-25ft. Then it drops off on 30-40 degree slope down for
> a long way.
> 
> My questions are:
> how deep should one dig into the land to get a level
> space versus using fill dirt to get a level space?
> 
> what precautions should be done to stablize the soil
> downhill of the house so that it doesn't wash away,
> taking our proposed beautiful cob house with it?
> 
> with keeping water away from the cob and a slope going
> down to it, any ideas for water flow to keep the water from
> running right into the house in a rain storm?
> 
> are there any considerations for building on a hill that i should
> be concerned with?
> 
> thx
> greg
> 
> 
> 
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