[Cob] Arches

[Amanda Peck]

There was another thread about this earlier in the year:

http://www.deatech.com/pipermail/coblist/2004/000907.html

sending us here:

http://www.ok-ok-ok.com/

Notice that in that second link the earth bags are corbelled, including in 
the big photo in the section titled "cob and structural adobe."

On the other hand, Cal-Earth has gotten codes approval for a building in a 
seismic area, presumably with their standard building technique.



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This may be Ernie writing--seriously snipped:

 > I looked into the super adobe domes and noticed something; the arches
 > are formed by a single tube of adobe the wall is built behind the
 > form. Well I got to thinking and wondering if you could do the same
 > sort of thing with cob instead of corbelling the arch.

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