[Cob] Pond-RootCellar - A low impact impact home

[Joseph Puentes]

Wow this looks great. I'm thinking of using cob on my Pond. . .well it was going to be a pond and since then I've kind of decided to use the hole as a root cellar. So now I'm thinking to put a roof on this hole and then cob up the dirt walls. I was thinking that "somehow" I could lay some boards to cover the hole and then put a layer of straw bales on these boards and then the final roof over the top of the straw bales. I could then cob the underside of the bales and and a fully finished root cellar. 

Am I pie in the sky dreaming here? Anyone have any thoughts? Want to see some pictures of the hole in the ground?

joseph

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Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 19:33:10 -0400
From: Deborah Terreson <foodandart at comcast.net>
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Be still my beating heart!

A hobbit house!

Thank you Peter, for sharing this.  :) 

Deb.


On Jul 18, 2007, at 10:30 AM, Peter Kaulback wrote:


> > My wife passed this on to me, http://www.simondale.net/house/index.htm
> > about a young family who have built their home with little experience 
> > or
> > financial means (hmmm sort of like cobbing here in southern Ontario
> > except no money and little experience).
> >
> > A pleasing design which makes me think of using cob walls in an earth
> > storage room dug into the side of a hill on our property.
> >
> > Peter Kaulback
>