Cob building with Maya
  • • What is cob?
  • ALL PROJECTS SUMMARY
  • Spring 2022
  • NEWEST IDEA F/650 SQ.' HOUSE. NOV.2021
  • • Pandemic project phase 1: Earthen oven
  • Pandemic Project phase 2 & 3: Bench & Roof
  • Pandemic Project Phase 4: Pajareque wall
  • Pandemic Project Phase 5: Solarium
  • Pandemic Project Phase 6: January 2021
  • Pandemic Project Phase 7: Rocket Mass Heater
  • Pandemic Project Phase 8: Cob/adobe floor
  • Pandemic Project Phase 8 : Plastering
  • Pandemic Project: November 2021 SOLARIUM MOSTLY DONE
  • • Cob wall: first project
  • • I. "ATV Shed": Rural building SITE & DESIGN
  • II. "ATV Shed": STONE PIERS & COB LIZARD BENCH
  • III. "ATV Shed": SUMMER 2012 STONE FOUNDATION STEM WALL
  • IV. "ATV Shed" spring 2013 STONE COMPLETE
  • V. "ATV Shed" SUMMER 2013 WINDOW PREP/COB WALLS BEGIN
  • VI. "ATV Shed" Fall 2013
  • VII. "ATV Shed" SUMMER 2014 SETTINNG WINDOW FRAMES
  • VIII. "ATV Shed" Summer 2015 FAMILY HELP
  • IX. "ATV Shed" Fall 2015 GOT ROOF
  • X. "ATV Shed" Spring 2016
  • XI. "ATV Shed" Summer 2016 PORCH TIMBER WORK
  • XII. "ATV Shed" Fall/winter 2016 STUCCO TESTS
  • XIII. "ATV Shed" Spring 2017 FINISHING COB WALLS
  • XIV. "ATV Shed": Summer 2017
  • XV. WALLS DONE! "ATV Shed" PORCH ROOFING f17
  • XVI. "ATV Shed" Winter 2018
  • XVII. "ATV Shed" SUMMER 2018 EXTERIOR COMPLETE W/STUCCO
  • XVIII. "ATV Shed" SU18 INTERIOR WORK
  • XIX. Late summer STUCCO DETAILS
  • XX. "ATV Shed" NORTH WALL INSULATION
  • XXI. "ATV Shed" fall 2018 CEILING INSULATION
  • XXII. "ATV Shed" 2020 Where it's at now
  • XXIII. "ATV Shed" 2021
  • • Cob Chicken Coop
  • • CSU-Pueblo Bench Spring 2019
  • • Mud Mural Workshop WITH KIKO DENZER
  • • Cob Mailbox
  • • Cob Oven at Pueblo Music House
  • • Rough Timber Frame Shed
  • • Cob bench workshop WITH ANNE FROBEEN
  • • Horticulture
  • • Mountain Park Environmental Center Fire Circle Benches
  • • Xeriscape garden
  • • Ecohouse model
  • • Natural Building on show
  • • Nature, art, fun and other photos
  • Info about Maya

Ecohouse Model

In 2008 I was part of implementing a show on Sustainability at the Sangre de Cristo Arts and Conferene Center. For the show, a few students helped me build a model single-family dwelling for a theoretical Ecovillage which I designed with a community center, gardens and orchards from the direction of prevailing winds to cool pathways between building in the summer.
The building was designed to be cob on the south side and straw bales on the north side. A newer development is "bale-cob" which has half a bale cut lengthwise adjacent to several inches of cob in the same wall.
The model had to be built off-sit, so to keep it from getting too heavy, I developed what I call "styro-cob" which uses ground up styrofoam peanuts, clay and straw (replacing sand with the styrofoam). Four people can move this model.
I continue, in some instances, to use stryrocob. I put this behind nests in the chicken coop to infill between bales.

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The docent looks at the model

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South-facing side of building.

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Living room

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Porch off of second floor/bicycle storage underneath.

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Looking from dining room to living room

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Kitchen. See how High shelf sits on posts embedded in the cob.

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Niche and Rocket stove.

WhatIF Imagination Celebration event

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For two years now I've presented at Imagination Celebration event downtown Colorado Springs. The first year, we made a cob dog house.

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2011

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This year I brought the model and people studied it with great interest. This is first thing in the morning.

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They still wanted "hands-on" so I did three cob-stomping demos which children joined in, then I gave them the cob to make things with. They loved it!

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