I have been distracted by earthbag housing..
This weekend. I saw one of the houses being built on line, and it looks like something even I could manage. I’m seriously considering using the technique in the garden to built the kids a play house. Could you lay a patio with it? There’s a thought. Walls?
It’s also known as superadobe. The basic method is laying a coil of earth filled bag in a circle, eventually building it up into a dome or a pointed dome. Barbed wire is used to grip the layers together. An arched room can also be achieved. Apparently it’s ludicrously cheap to build. I’ve seen a build cost of $950 for one 4m dome. So, I’ve bought a book from Amazon on the subject.
Isn’t this just as cute as a button. Even if it looks a bit like a teapot. And here it is being built.
My eldest child now wants me to build her a little house just like it in the garden.
I’ve already designed my new dream superadobe house on paper. Will it support a turf roof, I wonder?
I’ve also got a major crush on this house, cost about £60 per msq.
Yep, I can’t stop thinking about building a super adobe so, I am going to build one
James
October 11, 2008
…that’s a hobbit house if i’ve ever seen one. you can only live there if you have hair on top of your feet and have a roundtrip ticket to morder in your pocket. no orcs need apply. hmmm, how many ent arms went
to make that ceiling, i shudder to think about it.
tzopilotl
April 20, 2009
i have a crush too on that same house. and i am building 30 of these hoobit adobe homes for my family.
Sita
May 10, 2009
I see you posted this just over a year ago. An article on earthbag building was just published in the most recent issue of Mother Earth News, which has distracted me just the same, so…did you build it?
Amber
July 26, 2009
No, still designing a multi dome at this stage.
mathilda37
August 4, 2009
…matilda, i keep getting
the usual follow-up from
you, but some wank has
inserted porn sites within
it which are infra dig,
spooks are capable of
anything i suppose, and
reading another person’s mail is a sure sign of
lack of gentility and the need to know fathomless
data wits lacking to
interpret, i am a fan
of these arrant boys,
who like flys are swatted
by larger gods for sport, but really let them earn their pounds by playing
the great game than purvey
crotch classics to the
unamused. by the way,
check out the omotic
post on tzopilotl wordpress, omotic
turns out to be a
corridor lab for
soundshifts and nauatl
particles, real intelligence indeed!
cheers.
tzopilotl
July 28, 2009
what is the book you bought for building one? i am in process of getting ready to build a combo home (straw bale, cob, living roof)inspired by hobbit homes. earthen-bag might be something i apply as well!
Dancing Hawk
July 31, 2009
…when i think of the yurt, the gher or ghar,
made from the adoration
of tallulah, the deer,
wickiups as the amerindians called them, and the tree worship
involved in churchy
rounds of yurt, both
designed for religious
travel of the nomad
on the tlaloc trail
of shower and snow,
e.g., xaua(N)=dress
in the old style, take
color, in the orchard
culture of the 7 greek
seasons, edenic abundance,
cornucopia from racks of cloud, when the god came
down his hat of beads dripping rain or
flakey spangles to feed
the animals who bowed
before him, or who fled
into a deeper part of the wood where stood his
chapels, i look at the
hobbit house and know
it has beard over
shoulder looking back
at our early caves,
a devolution. but when
i see a yurt, my mind
races forward to the
dark race of brittany
and wales where the
compass rose of tree/
treow/teotl(N)became
the sailor’s cross
and warped oar as
the deer took mast and went down to the sea
to use the net again
under other gods always,
and the same.
tzopilotl
August 4, 2009
…zhuang likes omotic post,tzopilotl wordpress,
to see (letra) created at the tribal level, and the nauatl caver connexion for
eurasia(basque-zhuang).
thenk you.
tzopilotl
September 27, 2009