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 Stove
  • 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

2020

I retired from teaching this year and look forward to taking care of all the finishing touches on the building this spring. Outside, the porch roof needs fascia and I'd like to get an underground curtain of rigid insulation around the south side. I also need some kind of gutter system; I'd like stone troughs on the ground, but we'll see.

Picture

Below left to right each row:
1. Me on the south side. These frescos were damaged by hail and will be repaired in the spring.
2. The north side. Little earthen mural shows the raw cob wall (dark brown), the earthen plaster that is on top of that (tan) and then the white lime stucco.
3. NE corner, the most lovely place to sit in cross breezes.
4. View along porch on north side. The unmilled porch timbers were all shaped and fitted with hand tools. It took a summer but the exterior living space makes this building so enjoyable.
5. My students in spring 2019 Natural Bldg. class at the university came up to see the building. This is the west side.The inside, since this insulation has gone up. Will likely finish with roll of bamboo.
6. The inside before ceiling insulation.
7. This shows where the building was after the roof was put on. Notice the temporary exterior poles to give it support until the walls were completed. Also notice the height of walls (wrapped in gray tarps) that were perfect for the roofers to stand on while working.
8. This last image demonstrates one of the main innovations of this building: vertical poles (red added in Photoshop) which are not necessary to support the roof but rather to satisfy code. The girders sit on top. Similarly, there are support posts midwall for middle girder and south wall for south girder. Embedding timbers can make for more cracking in the walls as they do not shrink as well, but I do not believe the integrity is compromised when a crack has a solid mass on top of it that weighs tons. All is hidden with patching, plasters and stuccos.
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