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New book "Building with
Earth - A Guide to Flexible-Form Earthbag Construction" By Paulina
Wojciechowska
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Book Review
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“This informative book on earth construction demonstrates how to build a structure, cheaply and robustly with earth using the earthbag technique. Paulina, using excellent illustrations and photographs, details every step of the process from design of the walls, buttresses, foundations and roofing, to the particularities of setting out the building on site, and its construction. Because mud is a material vulnerable to attack from water it is essential to get all the important details correct. |
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The resulting walls, domes and vaults have remarkable organic forms that are topped off with roofs finished with grasses, patties, shingles or more conventional timber trusses and tiles. What is very interesting is to see new designers reinventing mud features, like the exterior mud bench, that I have excavated 6000 year old examples of in Mesopotamia where later scribes called them ‘kisu’ in cuneiform tablets written in over 4500 years ago. Perhaps what we see described in Paulina’s book is actually a building construction system of the future, as well as one of the past. If so it is fortunate we have such a comprehensive ‘how to’ manual for the mudbag builders of tomorrow. This is
a delightful book and has lots of lessons on the basic construction that
apply to many building types, not just those of flexible-form earthbag
construction.” By Professor
Susan Roaf (author of the book: “Ecohouse – A design Guide”) |
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