Cob: Cob (etc)design links for Jill

[Amanda Peck]

Cribbed from Charmaine Taylor's sites.  Oh, well.

www.dirtcheapbuilder.com
www.papercrete.com

Pictures of a hip-roofed building--could put little windows/vents up there 
to put light into your loft.  Hip roofs do not HAVE to have those little 
places one could put vents.  they obviously didn't because they used 
scissors trusses for the roof framing--give you room for overhead insulation 
plus a cathedral ceiling.  They used straw bale infill, put the roof up 
first.  With both straw bale and cob one can, with some loss in insulation, 
put windows to the outside, get bays, or bay windows, without having to put 
zigs and zags in your foundation.  My state, but I haven't been in Knoxville 
in fifteen years or so.

http://www.shrock.net/strawbale/

and I was right taken by the Ken Kern spiral on the home page of dirt-cheap 
builder, although I don't think I'd put in all those straight lines and 
right angles after building that lovely spiral wall.  It's a nice shape for 
cob, might buttress itself better than right angles.


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