Earthbag building

(strawbales using an expensive conventional foundation and roof making not alot of sense for me and not even saving money much of the time by what I hear) Heck you could almost put stick built walls up to save time (as earthbags are a big cost in time and hassle per cubic foot filled whereas the walls are the cheapest by comparison to roof/foundation) and things like that is almost what i'm now thinking. Why aren't we already doing this?

​If you’re only going to read one post on roofing for earthbag, make it this one. Remember our brave and successful earthbag lovers in Costa Rica ? Here’s how they constructed their roof, step...

The Aseseeso earthbag chalet under construction. Note how it’s built on sloping ground.

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Ever wondered what the building process looks like when building with earthbags? Check out this timelapse to get an idea. If you don't like heavy metal

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Here is a distilled version of the nearly 500 pictures I took of the four-day earthbag workshop held at the farm where we are studying Perma...

5 metre high earthbag dome. The structure has a front door & back door, 3 windows, a floating staircase and a platform floor.

The earthbag architecture village (Pod 1) is the first of seven different sustainable village models to be built. It consists of seventy-eight 150-200 square foot (14-18.6 sq meter) earthbag hotel room styled cabanas plus 4 shower domes and 4 toilet domes and the central Tropical Atrium. The living domes are arranged in three-dome and six-dome clusters with a central sitting area designed for relaxation, a fire pit, and/or growing a small shared garden. Once the straw bale village (Pod 2) is…