[Cob] earth - a building material of the future &Cameroon COB

[Janet Standeford]

Thanks Charmaine,
Wow...these are great sites. Thank you.


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On 2/22/2010 12:14 AM, Charmaine Taylor wrote:
> I wanted to recommend a look at both these links- one is a design show
> in Europe on raw earth for building, and the other shows cob  cone
> shaped buildings.
>
> I use the google "alert" for specific words like lime, papercrete, and
> some amazingt sites pop up I would never have foound otherwise.  so
> I'd say try it for any word you want info on.  the bottom link is one
> that came in for papercrete used in a beautiful way in house design.
>
> http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/9/view/9229/earth-a-building-material-of-the-future.html
> [designboom has dedicated a large amount of time to learn more about
> clay - one of the earliest natural building  materials in history of
> men. our intent is to promote earth also as a building material of the
> future.]
>
>
> http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/9/view/9207/musgum-earth-architecture.html
>    in this first article of a series, which we will publish in the
> upcoming weeks, we'll examine a few ancient building  techniques.  the
> musgum, an ethnic group in far north province in cameroon, created
> their homes from compressed
> sun-dried mud. the tall conical dwellings, in the shape of a shell
> (artillery), featured geometric raised patterns.
> +++++++++++++++++++++
>
> Another alert  from the  UK-- besides the gorgeous block wall I
> laughed to see they did it with using cardboard boxes!!  hundreds of
> cardboard boxes to make the shapes.
>
> I have been using cardboard for ages to make precast blocks, but I
> admit I did not have the vision to make a 'beauty wall'   like this--
> not structural, but as a draft or wind break wall, it is stunning to
> see how pretty this is.
>
>   the house looks like wood walls, but the use of the  blocks really
> makes the  design.
>
> I am sure cob can be used and has been used like this-
> http://bartlettyear1architecture.blogspot.com/2010/02/rural-studio-christine-papercrete-house.html
>
>
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