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| This thatch demo is just a few bales with a thatched hat. Look at the bales - golden. This has been sitting out like this for about three years in southern Arizona. The thatch is local "bear grass." This photo is from the Buildings part of the Canelo Project section. |
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| An earthen oven by Kiko Denzer on the grounds of the Black Range Lodge in Kingston, New Mexico. It's a phoenix that's seen better days. Since this photo, erosion repair has taken place and now it kinda looks like a chicken. |
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| Earthen oven, still glistening wet. A detail of the bas relief is below. This photo is from the Natural Building Colloquium - East section. |
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| This photo is from the Natural Building Colloquium - East section. |
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| Another Kiko earthen oven under construction in Oregon. Typically, in ovens without smokeholes, the smoke comes out at the top of the front door. That's OK, because you don't cook over a flame in these things; you build a good hot fire and heat up the oven itself, then scrape out the coals and the stored heat cooks whatever you're cookin'. Anyway, he's using that same smoke-evacuation principal here, but is putting a chimney in the top of the door area. Get it? (The visible layer is insulative straw-clay, which also breaks from tradition.) |
