Cob

Description:

Versatile building material with excellently low embedded-energy costs. Used for benches, ovens, interrior walls, and sometiems exterior walls. As a dense mass, it provides thermal regulation in desert places where temperatures fluctuate widely in a day, it will retain warmth from the hot day into the cold night and coolness from the night into the hot afternoon, but it's a terrible choice of exterior wall material for a place like Vermont.

How it Works:

technically how does this thing operate?
simply mud&straw mixed together... though the "mud" needs to have a certain clay-sand ratio

Status:

  • well-tested
  • anciently used
  • utilized still (sparse)

Ecological Principles:

  • local availability
  • human(not machine) processing

Areas of Need:

  • building

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