proyectos

Cob Cottage

Oregón

Experimental cob house built by Welsh-American ecologist Ianto Evans and Linda Smiley near Coquille, in Oregon (USA), inhabited since 1989 and considered possibly the first cob house in North America. Cob is a mixture of clay-rich earth, sand and straw that is kneaded and applied by hand in layers, without formwork or bricks, forming sculptable monolithic walls. After studying traditional cob buildings from the British Isles, Evans and Smiley developed here the variant known as Oregon cob, and in 1993 founded the Cob Cottage Company together with Michael Smith, largely responsible for the resurgence of this technique in the United States. Around the original cottage grew a campus of test buildings known as Cobville, with a dozen structures, a library and a kitchen, home to the workshops of the North American School of Natural Building. The experience was condensed into the reference manual The Hand-Sculpted House (2002). The complex demonstrates a construction with a minimal footprint using materials from the site itself.

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Projects

Region

Oregón

Official website

cobcottage.com