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.

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 ...

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 ...

a one-off robot that takes sand or soil, adds a special binding agent, then spews out a fully formed architectural object of the designers’ choosing. “The shape of the resulting object is ...

As a geotechnical engineering educator myself, I use sandcastles in the classroom to explain how interactions of soil ... Most sand will work for building a sandcastle, but the best sand has ...

Try building a house without any of the materials mere Earthlings use to build houses. That’s the challenge facing astronauts as they move forward with colonizing Mars. They’ll either need to ...

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 ...

Building with 3D printers has matured rapidly ... The walls will be constructed using soil sourced from within 25 kilometers (15.5 miles) of the site, says Hassell, and contain a thin wire ...