The machine made thing has the mark of the unliving device.
The thing made by hand has the signature of the living spirit.
-Henry Beston
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Cob Bench
Cob Bench at Solar living Institute
Cob Courtyard
This Cob courtyard was built by Tim and Andy at the Boggs Homestead in Coquille Oregon during 2004.
Cob Dwelling
This Cob dwelling was started during the very first SGNB workshop and finished by Sasha in in the 2004
Sasha plastring outside of cob.
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Window
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inside of addition
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Bench outside of cabin
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plaster detail outside of cabin
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Outside of Sasha's Cob dwelling. Left side is original cob structure, and right side is addition built out of wattle and daub, cob, and slip straw.
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inside of cabin
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Strawbale workshop
Strawbale workshop taught by Sasha in the fall of 2005, at the Real Goods Solar Living Institute. The photos show the building after a 6 day workshop.
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Students learn to work with bamboo
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Student learns to use eathen palsters
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Strawbale tool shed after a 6 day workshop
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Student mixes cob
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Students make slip straw blocks
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Bottles placed in cob and wood section of the wall, above the strawbale wall.
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Student Projects
These are projects designed and built by our previous students.
Jen Lehman and her family helped students and their parents build this strawbale playhouse at their children's school.
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George Lee designed and built this cob courtyard as his senior project at Vassar in 2005.
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Wood Fired & Cob Ovens
Workshop
The first lesson of the day: How to mix
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Work begins on a cob and straw bale home in Hopi land
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Andy proves it's never too young to start teaching tomorrow's builders as he works with his son
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Student learns lime and earthen plastering techniques
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Cob and Cob Oven workshop just north of Santa Barbara in 2005.
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Students Plastering cob bench at workshop near Santa Barbara
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Yestermorrow Cob Workshop 2004
This wall was built during a 5 day cob workshop taught by Tim, and plastered during a 2 day earthen plaster workshop taught by Tim and Sasha the following year.
Yestermorrow Cob Workshop 2005
This chicken coop was built in a 6 day cob workshop taught by Sasha and Tim at Yestermorrow Design/Build School in Warren, Vermont. Slip straw and wattle and daub walls were incorporated into the structure.
Students plastering a slip straw wall
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Students work on wattle and daub wall
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Student finishes plastering wattle and daub wall
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