Thursday, May 6, 2010

Our Home in Oaxaca












Above:  This will be our future home.  The walls will be Cob or also called a "pile of mud".  This pile of mud is an engineered mix of very strong straw, sand and local clay/dirt.  The clay content is around 25% of wall volume.  The rock wall is made from local rocks on the land and also "urbanite", which is recycled concrete.

May 21, 2010
Week 9 into Cobbing

the tire work, groundwork, foundation, urbanite and local rock stem wall, all took place over the last two years or so.

2 comments:

norm said...

Looks like your making real progress. I like the round shape.

ziggy said...

Hey Mark:

ziggy from the NBCO here.... wow, great to finally see your home! Impressive undertaking! The shape is very UFO-y... keep well down there.

- ziggy