"The Hand-Sculpted House inspired me to learn and do more and
transformed how I saw homes and building in general."-Mother Earth
News "If you follow it word for word you will build yourself a
house no matter who you are."-Builder Paul Dillon, quoted in The
Irish Times Are you ready for the Cob Cottage? This is a building
method so old and so simple that it has been all but forgotten in
the rush to synthetics. A cob cottage, however, might be the
ultimate expression of ecological design, a structure so attuned to
its surroundings that its creators refer to it as "an ecstatic
house." The authors build a house the way others create a natural
garden. They use the oldest, most available materials
imaginable-earth, clay, sand, straw, and water-and blend them to
redefine the future (and past) of building. Cob (the word comes
from an Old English root, meaning "lump") is a mixture of
non-toxic, recyclable, and often free materials. Building with cob
requires no forms, no cement, and no machinery of any kind.
Builders actually sculpt their structures by hand. Building with
earth is nothing new to America; the oldest structures on the
continent were built with adobe bricks. Adobe, however, has been
geographically limited to the Southwest. The limits of cob are
defined only by the builder's imagination. Cob offers answers
regarding our role in Nature, family and society, about why we feel
the ways that we do, about what's missing in our lives. Cob comes
as a revelation, a key to a saner world. Cob has been a traditional
building process for millennia in Europe, even in rainy and windy
climates like the British Isles, where many cob buildings still
serve as family homes after hundreds of years. Cob houses (or
cottages, since they are always efficiently small by American
construction standards) are not only compatible with their
surroundings, they ARE their surroundings, literally rising up from
the earth. They are full of light, energy-efficient, and cozy, with
curved walls and built-in, whimsical touches. They are delightful.
They are ecstatic.
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