Complete Cob Guest Cottage at the RoundHouse Retreat in North Carolina (Murphy)

THE PROJECT

We will be building a 14m2/150ft2 round cob bungalow/cottage for our Host Amy that will be rented out to guests who want to experience off-grid living and learn solar, micro-hydro and other independent living technologies.  This will be Amy’s first 100% Natural Building on the site. The main house is made out of handcrafted kiln-dried cedar cordwood with a super high R-value and concrete between the logs. Students in this Advanced Cobber Certification training will, as always, learn all the steps to building a complete cob building from scratch: digging the trench and building a stone foundation and pouring the floor in week 1, building the monolithic cob wall with all its detailed insertions in weeks 2 & 3, sculpting the wall in week 3, plastering in week 4, building the completed roof in weeks 4 & 5 and finishing the wall and the second floor coat at the end of week 5.

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Complete Cob Guest Cottage at the RoundHouse Retreat in North Carolina (Murphy)