Hand-Sculpted House - A Philosophical and Practical Guide to Building a Cob Cottage (Evans Ianto)(Paperback) - diskuze

"The Hand-Sculpted House inspired me to learn and do more and transformed how I saw homes and building in general."--Mother Earth News "If you follow it word for word you will build yourself a house no matter who you are."--Builder Paul Dillon, quoted in The Irish Times Are you ready for the Cob Cottage? This is a building method so old and so simple that it has been all but forgotten in the rush to synthetics. A cob cottage, however, might be the ultimate expression of ecological design, a structure so attuned to its surroundings that its creators refer to it as "an ecstatic house." The authors build a house the way others create a natural garden. They use the oldest, most available materials imaginable-earth, clay, sand, straw, and water-and blend them to redefine the future
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