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The only comprehensive, illustrated, step-by-step guide to building with earthbags. Over seventy percent of Americans cannot afford to own a code-enforced, contractor-built home. This has led to widespread interest in using natural materials-straw, cob, and earth-for building homes and other buildings that are inexpensive, and that rely largely on labor rather than expensive and often environmentally-damaging outsourced materials. Earthbag Building is the first comprehensive guide to all the tools, tricks, and techniques for building with bags filled with earth-or earthbags. Having been introduced to sandbag construction by the renowned Nader Khalili in 1993, the authors developed this'Flexible Form Rammed Earth Technique'over the last decade. A reliable method for constructing homes, outbuildings, garden walls and much more, this enduring, tree-free architecture can also be used to create arched and domed structures of great beauty-in any region, and at home, in developing countries, or in emergency relief work.This profusely illustrated guide first discusses the many merits of earthbag construction, and then leads the reader through the key elements of an earthbag building:Specia

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Author

Kaki Hunter; Donald Kiffmeyer

Publisher

New Society Publishers, NSP

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9780865715073

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Architecture, Home & Lifestyle, Technology

Rating

4.25 / 5 (142 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14