Community Rebuilds Straw Bale Home
Project led by: Eric Plourde of Community Rebuilds Location: Moab, UT Date: August – December 2012 Community Rebuilds is a non-profit, building straw bale houses for low income families in Moab, Utah. This house was completed, start to finish in 4 months, by a team of 10. The house is a 1000sq ft, 3 bedroom, [...]
Project led by: Jeffrey! Location: Aprovecho, Cottage Grove, OR Date: September 2011 – April 2012 Reclaimed timber ceiling feature, surrounded by earthen plaster The project began with an idea: by reducing the size of a house, we actually increase the space we live in. Having a smaller home forces us outside and into [...]
Project led by: Jeffrey! Location: Pete’s Castle, Dunster, BC Date: June 2012 This 22″ cob oven was built over a few weeks. Everything except the firebrick and stove pipe were collected from within 5 minutes of the house. (And both of those were reclaimed) The foundation is constructed from dry stacked rocks, sitting on top [...]
Project led by: Chris Foraker Location: Aprovecho, Cottage Grove, OR Date: August 2011 – July 2012 This project was the main build in Aprovecho’s ‘Sustainable Shelter Series’. The playhouse is 150 square feet, small enough to avoid costly permits in Oregon. It features a variety of different natural building materials and techniques to both educate [...]
Collaborative project with Jim Harding Location: Aprovecho, Cottage Grove, OR Date: November 2011 Working with the great carpenter, Jim, we made this sunshine door to go on the playhouse. The door is mortise and tenon cedar around a piece of ply. To create the pattern and finish surface we used cedar from an old wooden [...]
Project led by: Kiko Denzer Location: Aprovecho, Cottage Grove, OR Date: August 2012 This earthen yurt was built as part of the ‘sustainable shelter series’ at Aprovecho. The yurt is made from site harvested bamboo, lashed together using recycled bailers twine. It features a reciprocal roof, meaning that every beam is supported by all the [...]
