[Cob] Eco Hotel

[Dean Sherwin]

Alessandra
sounds like a great idea & should be successful with the positive 
publicity it will get etc.  Is cob or earth building a  local way of 
building in your area?  Adobe is common in spanish speaking areas 
incl S.America (eg Peru), never heard of any in Brazil.  In general 
its good I feel to look for traditional local methods that have 
worked well (and there may be expertise in them even if only among 
the very old)  Sao Paolo is sub-tropical I think, is it wet or humid 
?  Not very I believe, so suitable for earth building.  Maybe look at 
local soil type in the proposed location and that can help choose the 
best earth building type.  Cob developed in my native  SW England 
with a very specific soil type;  rammed earth is much more forgiving 
of soil type and can be done with modern construction methods.
Dean Sherwin

At 03:00 PM 1/14/2010, you wrote:
>the idea is a completely?self susteinable hotel using only natural 
>material, mainly COB.?I don't even know if there is some?interest 
>about this subject so I'm here to invite you to give any kind of 
>sugestion or restriction. An information I'm looking for is if there 
>is any hotel you know or heard about that is completely self susteinable