Cob:

Sat Jan 18 23:00:09 CST 2003

Thank you for the response about "where to build". I did read the building code article on site, so I guess I should rephrase my question to be: Where are these "no-code needed" places or states? referred to in the article. 
Also, I found several interesting books at the library- most of which show cob, but they call it adobe (even though it clearly shows a monolythic building style). One of which, "Down to Earth" shows the trough that we were talking about a few posts earlier. The walls come out quite smooth and are tamped at the top. The photo is in color providing a clear image definition. 
The other, "The Owner-Built Adobe House" was also interesting and useful. Though my favorite was "Mud Spaces and Spirit". Perhaps these books were referred to in this list before. 
Has anyone here utilized a yurt? We have opted to order a 30' yurt from Pacific Yurts to use during our building process. (We are a family of 6, but very close. We have lived in a couple of houses, and each time we never used more than half of it. My little kids still sleep in our room, so we finally installed built-in bunkbeds in one of the long closets in the master bedroom.) 
I also wanted to share, since geocities is a popular place to have free web sites, I found it a terrific source for cob builder's sites. From the geocities page, I could search for cob and not have to page through the same ones that the search engines come up with. The search page is here http://geocities.yahoo.com/
I am considering take a few classes via the web at http://www.sfia.net/index.asp Has anyone else taken any traditional type classes? Architecture is a passion of mine - from a distance. This is my first hands on or training at any of this. I am glad to find this like mind list - at least similar in cob, if not other life views. :)
-jill
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thank you for the response about "where to build". 
I did read the building code article on site, so I guess I should rephrase my 
question to be: Where are these "no-code needed" places or states? referred to 
in the article. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Also, I found several interesting books at the 
library- most of which show cob, but they call it adobe (even though it clearly 
shows a monolythic building style). One of which, "Down to Earth" shows the 
trough that we were talking about a few posts earlier. The walls come out quite 
smooth and are tamped at the top. The photo is in color providing a clear image 
definition. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The other, "The Owner-Built Adobe House" was also 
interesting and useful. Though my favorite was "Mud Spaces and Spirit". Perhaps 
these books were referred to in this list before. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Has anyone here utilized a yurt? We have opted to 
order a 30' yurt from Pacific Yurts to use during our building process. (We are 
a family of 6, but very close. We have lived in a couple of houses, and each 
time we never used more than half of it. My little kids still sleep in our room, 
so we finally installed built-in bunkbeds in one of the long closets in the 
master bedroom.) </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I also wanted to share, s</FONT><FONT 
face=Arial size=2>ince geocities is a popular place to have free web sites, I 
found it a terrific source for cob builder's sites. From the geocities page, I 
could search for cob and not have to page through the same ones that the search 
engines come up with. The search page is here <A 
href="http://geocities.yahoo.com/">http://geocities.yahoo.com/</A></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I am considering take a few classes via the web at 
<A 
href="http://www.sfia.net/index.asp">http://www.sfia.net/index.asp</A> Has 
anyone else taken any traditional type classes? Architecture is a passion of 
mine - from a distance. This is my first hands on or training at any of this. I 
am glad to find this like mind list - at least similar in cob, if not other life 
views. :)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>-jill</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>

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