02-18-2009 01:01 PM
by daltxguy |
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As part of my adobe brick making series, I thought I might show some examples of what an adobe brick building might look like.
I guess most people might imagine that an adobe brick building must necessarily look like came out of the southwest US but not so. Mudbrick has been used for centuries and there are far more mudbrick homes than you probably imagine. Many of them look like any other building that you are used to seeing.
I’ve chosen to limit my pictures to homes built here i...
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02-04-2009 12:41 PM
by daltxguy |
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Several years ago now, my partner and I took a 1 week course on building with adobe bricks/cob. We are lucky here in New Zealand that some hard working people developed approved building standards for adobe brick construction. Our instructor, Richard Walker was one of the people responsible for this standard.
Our forest property sits on some ideal clay soil and we are interested in sourcing our new construction entirely from materials found on or near the site, so adobe should figure somew...
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