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
Kelly have you seen gabions used as foundations of earthbag structures?
I have not seen this arrangement. Although it could work, it doesn’t make much sense to me since earthbags can serve as their own foundation. In fact I did combine earthbags and gabions in one project, but did it in reverse: the earthbag wall served as a foundation for the gabion wall. You can see this shown at https://naturalbuildingblog.siterubix.com/building-earthbag-stone-rainwater-storage-cellar/
I am new to the natural building. I think that will be great, thinking of rubble trench foundation, as long as we can have a way to secure them well so they won’t move.
This is just a suggestion. Please feel free to comment.
Thanks
Generally a rubble trench foundation doesn’t need the confinement of gabions because the surrounding soil provides that role. In areas where the surrounding soil is libel to erode, then gabions would be a good idea.
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