[Cob] Re: Robotic house builder

[Ryan Hunt]

The researcher leading this concept has a nice website at 
http://www.contourcrafting.org
He's working with CalEarth on materials and architecture ideas.

We've been looking into learning his technology to make interior house 
features such as cabinets, counter tops, and stairways. 

-Ryan Hunt

Hunt Utilities Group
http://www.hugllc.com


Shannon C. Dealy wrote:

>On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Rob Bolman wrote:
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>>Shannon,
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>>Please forward this to the cob list.  I've always wanted to see
>>something like this to produce cob structures.... except perhaps not so
>>fully automated.
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>>Take  care,
>>Rob
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>>This article describes a machine that extrudes concrete walls,
>>potentially of any shape (see the picture on page two), one layer at a
>>time. I thought you'd find it interesting.
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>>http://www.discover.com/issues/apr-05/features/whole-house-machine/
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>There have been a few other machines like this showing up over the last
>year or two, at least one of them was using a fair bit of earth in the
>mix, though I don't recall any including straw and I think all of them had
>at least some cement in their mixes.  It does at least present a possible
>approach for taking cob more into the mainstream, though a cob based
>machine would probably be quite a bit more difficult.
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