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Join us for this 4th in a series of workshops to build “Querencia”, a strawbale/cob artist studio at Taproot Farm. Querencia is a whimsical, earth-friendly oasis designed to nurture the inner “creative”. The interior walls, a wrap-around couch, the entry bench, and storage shelves will be sculpted out of cob.
Cob is a mixture of clay, sand, and straw, and is used to build in applications where high thermal mass is appropriate. Cob has the same ingredients as adobe, and is often referred to as “sculptural adobe” since it is hand-formed. In this application we are building interior walls and furniture, including a bench, a couch, and built-in shelves. We have selected cob for its ability to collect and store heat energy (thermal mass), so it becomes an integral ingredient in the house’s passive solar design.
Cob Workshop Announcement-pdf.pdf (1 MB)
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