Cob: more Japanese links

[Darel Henman]

Thanks Larry,
  Here are some explanations for a couple of pictures in English.  I
thought the oven was for cooking, but, it was made for roasting / baking
fresh water clam shells to make a lime for the exterior walls and for
mixting with soil for a lime stabilized rammed earth floor.  

Picture # 3    they are building an oven to roast fresh water clams to
make lime, which they mixed with
               soil for the exterior coating.  They used about 120
buckets, size not mentioned, of fresh
               water clam shells.

Picture # 5    they are making a thick paper out of reeds.  It looks
like they'll use it as wall paper.
Picture # 8    they are roasting the fresh water clam shells to make
lime

Pictures #15 & 16 show the reed paper attached to the interior walls.


Darel

Larry Lindly wrote:
> 
> If you explore around there are more cool projects linked from the
> Japanese site posted earlier. heres one.
> http://cosmic-soup.com/active/old.html