The 9th International Hemp Building Symposium is to be held next Tuesday 15th- Wednesday 16th September 2020. It will still take place but in a different format as only online Virtual Tours of International Projects. The Symposium will feature a selection of Virtual Tours of Hemp building projects of 20 minutes duration each. The tours … Read more
With walls made from old tires packed with earth, as well as upcycled glass bottles and cans, Earthships have always been built with mainly found materials. The home provides its own energy (with photovoltaics, passive solar and geothermal tubes), water (rainwater and even dew-water capture) and grows food in the greenhouse (necessary for temperature regulation … Read more
Gabions are wire cages filled with stones and they can used to create walls and many other projects, as the graphic shown below illustrates. We have featured the use of gabions in other blog posts, such as DYI Gabion Walls, Gabion Band Stone Construction, Gabion Beams for Earthquake Resilience This graphic is courtesy of www.wirefence.co.uk
Sand is one of those natural materials that we take for granted; it seems so abundant that we could never run out of it. Both natural building and conventional building rely on sand for many aspects of construction. It is an essential component of adobe, cob, rammed earth, earthen plaster, stucco and concrete. It is … Read more
Kayla Cohen, who writes and records as Itasca, began to crave natural spaces that were quieter, slower and more suited to creative thinking than where she was living in Los Angeles. “I’m really into natural building and that idea of creating spaces and communes that are not the way that people normally live,” she said. … Read more
Rochelle and Joel Payne of Auckland, New Zealand, a PhD student and former aircraft engineer, are building a rammed-earth house which is part of the the Living Building Challenge. The house will be highly insulated to Passive House standards; it will also generate its own power. All waste water will be disposed of right there, … Read more