housing:natural_building_methods:earthbags
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- | Earthbag building | + | Earthbag building is a modern twist on perhaps humanity’s most important building tradition. |
- | earthbag2 | + | Bags or tubes are filled with earth (a suitable aggregate, sometimes with additions, and if you’e really lucky it’ll just be the stuff you moved to make the site for your building), and then placed in walls; barbed wire is used as a tie or ‘mortar’, |
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- | Earthbag building in Nepal with cement bond-beam in place. (timber would be more usual in eco-builds). | + | |
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- | Bags or tubes are filled with earth (a suitable aggregate, sometimes with additions, and if you’re really lucky it’ll just be the stuff you moved to make the site for your building), and then placed in walls; barbed wire is used as a tie or ‘mortar’, | + | |
From its origins in the building of military bunkers, and in flood defence, earthbag has been developed and applied around the world. It has been widely tested both structurally and thermally. | From its origins in the building of military bunkers, and in flood defence, earthbag has been developed and applied around the world. It has been widely tested both structurally and thermally. | ||
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housing/natural_building_methods/earthbags.txt · Last modified: 2020/01/20 15:26 by ajeremias