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mud for everyone: March 2010
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Tuesday, March 23, 2010. Urbanite Retaining Wall at the Garden of Invasive Species. Welcome to the Garden of Invasive Species, otherwise known as my backyard. And japanese knotweed (deliciously edible tho). And lots and lots of Vinca Major! Not to mention, I compiled a thorough list with the help of my landscaping buddy, Ethan Rainwater. Here goes:. So, I don't feel bad about changing this landscape and taking some of the heavy clay soil out of there for my next cob structure. Score! Links to this post.
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mud for everyone: May 2010
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Wednesday, May 12, 2010. Every year, the architecture students at the University of Oregon put on a wonderful Green Building Conference called HOPES (Holistic Options for Planet Earth Sustainability). It's one of the largest and most well attended student-led conferences in the country. Some of the workshop students. The damaged end of the bench - directly aligned with the roof edge. A great clear example of what happens to cob uncovered after ten years of Eugene rain. Links to this post.
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mud for everyone: October 2009
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Monday, October 26, 2009. Rainwater Greenhouse - Update. The lovely Amit Chertoff, joins in for a day, just before heading back to Israel. Ethan is at home in the garden. Prepping bottles for more cob. Reclaimed tile, thrift store grout, and tumbled broken bottle chips. Create the potting surface. Workshop participants get dirty with light straw clay. And base coat plasters. Even old time friend, Max Edelson, stops by to get muddy for the afternoon. The main entrance begs you to enter. Links to this post.
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mud for everyone: Clary Rose Cob Oven
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Friday, April 6, 2012. Clary Rose Cob Oven. Welcome to Clary Rose Farm! A wonderful new permaculture demonstraiton site near Fort Jones, California. As per usual, I'm here to get dirty and show a bunch of people how to make a functional oven out of mud and some salvaged materials. Laying the insulative layer, old bottles make great air pockets in a bed a slip-coated sawdust. Laying the hearth floor with fire bricks. The sand dome form. Sculptural cob holds it in. Almost to the top! Clary Rose Cob Oven.
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mud for everyone: November 2010
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Tuesday, November 30, 2010. The Drop at Boom. The Lake Idanha Nova. And future site of the Drop. Cleaning the bamboo splits and sorting into different grades of looseness. Let the weaving begin! Yip, yip. back, back". It's the special language of large scale bamboo wall weaving. The ends come together in curving organic forms. The tall end of the wall gradually spreads and will frame the acrobatic stage. The tails become garden spaces. Installing the panels into meter deep trenches in the ground.
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mud for everyone: July 2009
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Tuesday, July 21, 2009. Suscol Strawbale Project - Part 3. Time for the finish plaster! Off-white aliz on the underside of the soffit. Tracy applying the final coat to the outside of the building. Bob comes around shortly after with the texture. We use the handle of the trowel to get the 'woven' texture. Early morning shadows are amazing. Enjoying popsicles along the way, what a treat on a 110 degree day! Links to this post. Monday, July 20, 2009. Suscol Srawbale Project - Part 2. On the outside of the b...
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mud for everyone: June 2009
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Tuesday, June 16, 2009. Suscol Strawbale Project - Part 1. The first week on the project we were assisted by an Americorps Crew, Hoopa Tribal Community Civilian Corps (TCCC). It was interesting getting muddy with these young natives, whom for the most part were delighted with the change of tasks- building with alternative materials instead of maintaining trails. Setting up the plaster prep area, glorious shade! Bob demonstrated how to tie a custom bale. Gravel bag course work for the foundation. Beloved ...
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mud for everyone: April 2012
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Sunday, April 8, 2012. Aprovecho Sustainable Shelter Series 2011: Inside Insulation Course. Bale infill begins the first day. Bales make great scaffolding too! Starting the mud mix for the light clay straw. This is a great screen system for a wheelbarrow, I want one of my own! Ramming the straw clay. Making slip from the nearby pond's pure clay, what a resource! The forms leap-frog up and before you know it, we've got solid walls! Reed mats for forms for the chip-slip sections. Links to this post.
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mud for everyone: Chip-Slip Sauna
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Wednesday, April 4, 2012. This project is one of the most refined natural buildings I have had the opportunity to work on. It's a 10'x10' wood-fired sauna with chip-slip insulated walls and site soil earthen plasters. The small building is framed with a quartered cedar log for the corner posts and stick-frame Larsen trusses in between. Then we create the integral forms for the chip-slip with large reed matting. We wait several months for the wall to dry and then it's time to plaster! Very innovative arch...