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FROM COB TO PREFAB AND BEYOND

From cob to prefab and beyond

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FROM COB TO PREFAB AND

BEYOND

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What’s the Matter with Buildings?

According to the World Watch Institute, buildings account for one fourth of the world's wood harvest, two fifths of its material and energy usage, and one sixth of its fresh water usage.

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Natural Building

Doing more with less is the key to working with, and not against, the

natural world that supports us.

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NATURAL BUILDING:

Adobe

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One half of the world’s population, approximately 3 billion people, lives or

works in buildings constructed of earth.

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Adobe bricks near construction site

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Adobe house under construction

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Adobe construction

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Typical damage to adobe construction

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Seismic upgrading for adobe

Rebuilding Gaza with clay bricks – using unsafe techniques.

EcoBuild Network is working on approval of ASTM

Engineering is already clearly ready to make earth structures safe

www.ecobuildnetwork.org

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Around the world…

Africa

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Mexico

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California

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New Zealand

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Persia

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Bolivia

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China

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New Mexico

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Greece

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Rammed earth

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In Canada…….

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Poured earth wall in Petaluma

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Cob

Poured earth

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Just add water…….sand, clay and straw

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Cob

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Cob Buildings in Europe

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Strawbale

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Real Goods Solar Living Institute

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Truth Windows

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Stone

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6th Century Ireland

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Earthships

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Bamboo

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Bamboo

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Panelized Home Construction

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Structurally Insulated PanelsSIPS

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SIPS

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SIPS

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Rethinking the Material World

“Beat, heat and treat is a good methodology, and it built the country,” says Brandon Tinianov, chief technology officer of Serious Materials.

“But we have to approach it a little differently because our eyes are now open.”

Dwell 2008

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“So if you want to change something big, you have to change the

material first.” Material science is design at the

molecular level. How molecules are shaped, and how

those shapes link together, determines the physical properties.

Ordered molecules, like diamonds, are harder and stiffer, while messy molecules can be pulled apart.

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Small changes, like turning iron into steel by adding carbon, have world-changing impact on

what can be imagined, planned and built.

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Green plastics & Biomimicry

How does nature make things? Plants make things out of CO2 and then

assemble them into bark and leaves. Replacing complex liquid carbon (petroleum)

with strings of simple carbon oxides also requires less energy than standard polymer making.

It’s a low-temperature, low-pressure reaction. Charles Hamilton, Novomer Inc.

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Innovations material science is currently developing...

Cost-competitive, low-energy ways of making cement, drywall, composites and other building materials

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Eco Rock

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Prefab “Green” Homes

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West Coast Green's SG Blocks, Harbinger House

Made from cargo containers

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i-house prefab

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Buckminster Fuller’s Geodesic Domes

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Paolo Soleri - Arcosanti

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Eugene Tsui -

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Jonathan Zimmerman - AIA

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Z Domes

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WE DID NOT INHERIT THE EARTH FROM OUR PARENTS. WE ARE

BORROWING IT FROM OUR CHILDREN.CHIEF SEATTLE