According to Orin Hardy, founder of bamboo training course Bamboo U, “There was a time when nobody would want to be seen to live in a bamboo house.” In the heart of the Balinese jungle, IBUKU’s fairy tale headquarters offer a window into the future of bamboo construction: multi-story, open-air housing with electricity, water and … Read more
I just received this email from Marlene Wulf, a long-time blog reader: I’ve been reading and enjoying the Natural Building Blog for years now and have been dabbling in natural building (earthbag, cob, rammed earth, etc.) for even longer. And I have a friend, Pack McKibben, who has been renovating his double-wide mobile home since … Read more
The designs of Biome Environmental Solutions in Bangalore are often built with earth sourced from the site or construction debris, harvest water, treat waste on the site and manage their energy through passive construction and active energy generation. The firm introduced the use of stabilized earth block for construction. Now many architects as well as … Read more
Arg-e Bam, the world’s largest adobe building in the route of Silk Road, is located in Kerman, southern Iran. You can see even more pictures at en.irna.ir
Yesterday I visited some land that we own near Deming, New Mexico, partly to see how the little underground earthbag dome that I built several years ago was faring. You can read more about this project on a prior post titled A Small Underground Dome Experiment. We have owned these 4 acres just a few … Read more
Kate and Scott Ryan-Taylor recently built Western Australia’s first Shire-approved Earthbag dome home. “For us it had two different appeals: cost and environmental,” Kate said. “The overall price came to $41,600, which includes the construction, permits, rain tanks and other elements. We’re now mostly off-grid and semi self-sufficient.”While the couple will still need to pay … Read more