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My Kingdom in the Clouds 🙏 #homesteading #NaturalBuilding

Today, my Brazilian mentee taught me about #ovenbirds or joão de barros, birds that build nests of #clay. But it’s not just clay, it’s essentially cob—clay and straw together. It makes me wonder if this is where humans got the idea for cob & adobe.

https://florida.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/nat15.sci.lisci.ovenbird/animal-structures-a-nest-made-out-of-mud/

#birds #naturalbuilding #earthworks #NaturalBuildingMaterials

The construction human is doing something on the roof. I'm going there!

#catsofmastodon #calico #naturalbuilding #construction

Hemp herd and mycelium vase. Glass vase used as the initial form.
#mycelium #naturalbuilding #solarpunk #mushrooms #fungi

Mycomaterial blocks. Made with a mix of hemp hurds and what I would guess is a reishi strain. From the company grow.bio. #mushrooms #mycomaterials #solarpunk #naturalbuilding

Soil testing today! Evaluating the soil I dug for the #poolPond for potential use for rammed earth floor and/or fence. The narrow mouth mason jar is soil from the smaller hole. The wide mouth mason (🎸 ) is from the large pile.
#naturalBuilding
#backyardProject #rammedEarth #PortAlberni Also yes, #atlas reminded me it was #caturday He says hello, and "why is this jar on my table meow?" #catsodon

Two mason jars, a wide jar and a narrow jar stand on a wood table. They are filled with water and soil and look like a uniform reddish brown color.

A narrow mouth mason jar stands full of water mixed with soil. It is a solid brown color. Behind the jar of walks a fuzzy cat. You can only see his back legs and fuzzy body.

Two jars stand on top of a small platform. One is narrow one is wide. Behind them is the yard with a hole on both sides.

More Vienna: Finally got to see the Hundertwasserhaus. Beautiful colors, shapes, curved lines, little details, plants growing on the roof and out of walls etc. Great demo of the effect of trees on microclimate too!

Less excited about the amount of souvenir shops and tourists tho. :( If the original intention was for the building to be a prototype and example to others, it now sadly seems like an art object.

#architecture #naturalbuilding #art #ecology #hundertwasser #vienna #wien

Hundertwasserhaus exterior, with cafe terrace and a lot of vegetation

Undulating pavement, trees offering shade

Making mud bricks is not so easy as it seems. You must find your recipe, that suits your material and people fail a lot. In most cases the brick disintegrates, once dried.

This is my first attempt. It is heavy and solid. Usable. 👍

Not perfect though. It is a bit coarse. I sieved mud and prepared 3 quality grades. This brick is made out of my crudest one.Next I'll try with the medium grade.

Recipe: mud + sand + Anisantha sterilis N. (= hay) + rice starch. Drying = 15 days. 100% free and bio building material😃

#diy #NaturalBuilding

The builder did a wonderful job on this mud and stone home. This is a 2024 home built on a 2023 slender mountain mint stem. Something is maturing safely inside. #pollinators, #wasps, #nativeplants, #minnesota, #mountainmint, #naturalbuilding.

The focus is on a home made nest. The nest is viewed from above. It’s a triple peanut shape attached to a mint stem. Small stones are visible in the matrix. The background is out of focus greenery.

Aspiring inventor and natural philosopher from the North (Köppen Dfb-Dfc boundary).

Living in a rented house w/ a yard in a midsize city, together with family and housemates. Also have a rural place with an old house, a workshop and a little bit of land.

Gamedev dropout, sometime designer, shop metrologist, comp-sci student.

Interested in #DIY, #repair, #permaculture, #agroforestry, #naturalbuilding, #dumpsterdiving, toolmaking, small scale energy, old computer tech, etc.

#introduction

My eventual plan is to build an earthbag home up in the mountains. Want to dig about 6-feet down. double wall, at least at the base. Then drive rebar through the walls for extra stability. then bury/berm the above grade portion and have a green roof. Yes, I want a thermally stable hobbit house.

This is one of the simpler and potentially strongest roof designs I've seen so far. Wondering if it would be strong enough to support 8-12" of dirt on top if those rafters were at a 10-15 degree pitch peak to walls.

https://earthbagbuilding.com/projects/texasstonehenge.htm

#NaturalBuilding #Permaculture #EarthBag

round earthbag structure with a telephone pole in the center that supports a radial network of rafters leading to the walls.

Image description: A group of young people working on a strawbale construction. They are filling a wooden frame with strawbales.

I recommend very much anyone interested in
#architecture
#naturalBuilding
#AlternativeBuildingMaterial
#Strawbale
#solarpunk
#StrawbaleConstruction
#EarthenFloors
#Cob
#BuildingTransition #ConstructionTechniques
to follow @BurchertMichael
:anarchoheart3:

#NaturalBuilding #DryStack essential rules. #permaculture

Complex illustration of a dry-stacked rock wall. with arrows illustrating examples for each of the rules. character counts preclude the full text description under each rule.

Essential Rules.
1. Set the stones so their lengths go into the wall, not along it.
2. Heart tightly.
3. Cross the joints.
4. Set stones level.
5. Build with the wall's plane.

The earthcrete/bahareque room is coming along nicely. It's hard to imagine a space this beautiful becoming a tool room, so our plans are under evaluation...

Construction with improvised and natural materials is never fast, rarely efficient, but always unique.

#Sustainability #SlowSustainability #NaturalBuilding #Farming

A bamboo and mud wall with green and clear glass bottles encrusted within it.

The same wall, but showing the top level of progress with a row of glass bottles waiting to be encased in the earthcrete mix.

The crew filling in the walls, handful by handful.

The back is done! I'm translating a French pattern as best I can - first time, so plenty of scope for error 🤣 I've cast on for the front ready for when I next get a chance to sit down with it, but it's definitely time to stop now & get some sleep. Christmas quiz tomorrow 🥳 & hopefully another game of Pandemic🤞Also time to order up some hemp and lime binder ready to insulate the loft walls. #life #knitting #solitude #quiz #boardgames #hempcrete #hemplime #naturalbuilding #clayplaster #insulation

A piece of multicoloured knitting - the back of a jumper, knitted in 3,3 rib

What a Christmas treat! New #BuildingSustainability triple bill episodes on #biophilia #biophilicdesign #tinyhouse #tinyhomes #sustainablebuilding #naturalbuilding #EnergyMastadon

https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5idXp6c3Byb3V0LmNvbS8yNzcxMDYucnNz/episode/QnV6enNwcm91dC0xMTkxOTE1OQ?ep=14

@GreeningScience Looking forward to following. I'm a female builder in my 50s focused on retrofit, extensions and new builds using natural materials. Main approach is to get insulation and ventilation sorted, and getting mass into homes so we're heating the fabric and not air. Always good to keep up with all and any research to learn more from. #sustainability #naturalbuilding #thermalmass

#EarthBuilding: On a recent 19th Century #retrofit project I discovered behind a thin layer of #lime, the plaster was a crumbly, lime stabilised #earth. Days later, replacing bathroom tiles in my 30’s semi - I found internal walls made from #straw blocks, bound by soft plaster. #NaturalBuilding materials are not fringe pursuits. From the many lump earth (#cob, #dabbins) buildings in Devon and Cumbria, to the more subtle use of #clay in #mortars & #plaster these materials are all around us.

Shows old timber laths with lime stabilised clay plaster and a lime finish

@Nickbin couldn't agree more! I'm also a builder who got into it out of a desire to do something practical about climate change. Nice to know there are like-minded folks on here #naturalbuilding

For @lindasgoluppiart - a close up of a section of my experimental sgraffito (carved layered clay plaster - the jelly) & relief work (the pink fronds). The course was a serious clay plasterers' course but this was my play piece. #NaturalBuilding #ClayPlaster #sgraffito #WomenInConstruction

#naturalBuilding

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