The walls are made of sand, water ... you can go on your own and start building a home." Though cob is simple and inexpensive to build, often created using the soil dug out to make the home's ...

Today, we start the first step of building a house—digging the soil! Using only simple tools and traditional techniques, we prepare the foundation for an incredible primitive house project.

This retreat center’s storage building features an attached cob oven and natural paints. Learn modern cob house building for a mortgage-free home using low ... to mix clay, sand, and straw ...

Architect studio ADX made a feature of the soil excavated from the building ... how the sand could be incorporated into the structure instead, in the spirit of further connecting the house with ...

Try building a house without any of the materials mere Earthlings use to build houses ... tested out different mixes of simulated Martian soil with sulfur and found the optimal concrete recipe ...