Tag Archive: foundations

[ June 9, 2012 to June 17, 2012. ] This is one of the most comprehensive cob course available in North America. In the past 15 years, we’ve taught almost 200 major cob courses and wrote the book on it too (The Hand Sculpted House)! In 9 intensive days, we’ll cover in depth all aspects of cob and the many techniques of building with [...]

[ September 17, 2011 to September 25, 2011. September 17, 2011 to September 25, 2011. ] Start Date / End Date:: Sept 17th – 25th, 2011This is one of the most comprehensive cob course available in North America. In the past 15 years, we’ve taught almost 200 major cob courses. In 9 intensive days, we’ll cover in depth all aspects of cob and the many techniques of building with cob including [...]

[ July 5, 2010 to July 11, 2010. ] Spend a week in North Carolina learning about cob building as we work together on the construction of a small cob cottage. We will work on mixing and applying cob as we build up the walls, as well as incorporating windows, a door frame, built-in shelving and seating. There will also be discussions [...]

[ June 19, 2010 to June 27, 2010. ] A complete cob workshop that provides the skills necessary to transform the earth into a cottage or studio. We will cover design, passive solar, foundations, soils/materials, cob mixing, straw-bale hybrids, doors and windows, sculptural details, roofing, plastering, flooring and more. Using inexpensive natural and local materials we’ll create a garden studio of great durability [...]

[ May 8, 2010 to May 15, 2010. ] Start Date / End Date:: May 8 – May 15, 2010Join us for a week of natural building and living in the beautiful Texas Hill County outside of Austin. Professional builders Kindra, John and Sara will take a week off from their packed building schedules to share their passion and knowledge of cob construction. [...]

[ April 9, 2010 to April 11, 2010. ] Familiarize yourself with the concepts behind a rubble trench foundation. On Friday night, you will see a photo presentation documenting the digging of the foundation trench. Over the weekend, experience hands-on work as we do flow-testing on the trench, lay gravel, install drain-pipe, and ready the foundation for the masonry stemwall that will be built [...]

[ April 16, 2010 to April 18, 2010. ] Arguably the most important part of a structure is its foundation. For a material like cob, the foundation is especially important because there is no going back to fix it once tons and tons of material is sitting on top of it – it must be done right the first time.Our Friday night presentation will [...]