This document provides information on various natural building techniques such as earth bricks, rammed earth, cob, wattle and daub, light earth, strawbale construction, timber framing, cordwood masonry, earth bag construction, super adobe, thatch roofing, and roundhouse construction. It discusses foundational aspects, structural elements, plastering, and aesthetics. It also highlights some examples of natural buildings from different regions.

1. Natural Building

2. Earth Brick

4. Bricks, brick
s, bricks and
more bricks.

6. Foundations

7. Brick and Mortar

8. Delicious food to fuel the body
and spirit!

9. Ecostead
Bed & Breakfast

10. Inside

11. Rammed Earth
Cinva -Inter American Housing
and Planning Center of
Ram- Paul Ramirez, Chilean Engineer Bogota, Columbia

12. Cob Mix with Earthen Plasters
Equal parts sand and clay Clay, Sand, and finely
mixed with medium length chopped fiber

13. Be sure to design a good hat &
boots for earthen structures

14. Ferro-Cement
Roof

15. Cob
Creations

16. Waddle and Daub
Waddle- woven latticework of
wooden stakes; Daub is
clay, sand, and straw mix
application

17. Sand, Clay, woodchip mixed lightly
Light Earth and placed in a form and lightly
tamped
Temporary Forms
are moved across
permanent ladders &
coppiced horizontals

20. Sprouting-Its Ok for the wall to sprout- drying slowly

21. Trim off edges for
Plastering and
Asthetics

22. Strawbale

24. Vaulted
Strawbale
Permaculture
Institute of Northern
California (PINC)

26. Strawbale mud domes, Kibbutz Lotan

27. Getting government on board…

28. Timber Framing

35. Excavation- Inspection of the Foundation

36. Bracing

37. Temperature
Considerations
Clay must
Dry
completely
before first
frost

38. Remember to celebrate!

39. Building with Whole Trees
Roald Gundersen

40. Roald Gundersen

41. Cordwood
Rainbow Valley Farm

43. Stone and Tile

44. Dry Stack Stone

45. Mosaic

46. Patios &
Walkways

47. Earth ships Recycled
Materials
Recycled Materials: Tires, Cans, Bottles

50. Earth Bag Construction

51. Earth Bag Construction

52. Super Adobe

53. Living Roof
Rainbow Valley Farm

54. Thatching
Thatching

59. Roundhouses

62. Celtic Earthen
Roundhouse
13 Timber Ceiling

63. Ger - Mongolian word for
“dwelling”
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decompressor
are needed to see this picture.

65. Portable
Roundhouse

67. Hurricane
House

68. City Repair
Information Kiosk and gazebo for a Hostel in Oregon

69. Aesthetics combined with Function
Glass Bottle inset Candle Holder and
providing light and art light reflector

70. Sculpted
Alcoves

71. Earthen Floors
Artisan Builders
Collective

72. Clay Paints

73. Tadelakt

75. Bottle Wall

76. But will it last?

77. Rammed Earth in New Zealand

78. English Cob House

79. Cob & Earth Plasters of Mali

80. Anasazi Cliff Dwellings of
Colorado

82. Home Sweet Home