The 9th International Hemp Building Symposium is to be held next Tuesday 15th- Wednesday 16th September 2020. It will still take place but in a different format as only online Virtual Tours of International Projects. The Symposium will feature a … Continue reading →
With walls made from old tires packed with earth, as well as upcycled glass bottles and cans, Earthships have always been built with mainly found materials. The home provides its own energy (with photovoltaics, passive solar and geothermal tubes), water … Continue reading →
Gabions are wire cages filled with stones and they can used to create walls and many other projects, as the graphic shown below illustrates. We have featured the use of gabions in other blog posts, such as DYI Gabion Walls, … Continue reading →
Sand is one of those natural materials that we take for granted; it seems so abundant that we could never run out of it. Both natural building and conventional building rely on sand for many aspects of construction. It is … Continue reading →
Kayla Cohen, who writes and records as Itasca, began to crave natural spaces that were quieter, slower and more suited to creative thinking than where she was living in Los Angeles. “I’m really into natural building and that idea of … Continue reading →
Rochelle and Joel Payne of Auckland, New Zealand, a PhD student and former aircraft engineer, are building a rammed-earth house which is part of the the Living Building Challenge. The house will be highly insulated to Passive House standards; it … Continue reading →