Window of the intern dorm
Some shots of the VIP guesthouse...
A final plaster with a lot of coarsely chopped straw, for texture.
Dtang's room.
Jo and Peggy's house
Another shot of Jo and Peggy's
An experiment with coarse sand in the final plaster: if the sand isn't fine enough then the plaster tends to crack off. Looks cool though...
The bathroom
If you look closely in the next one you'll see a big crack running through the wall. The bathroom walls were an experiment to see if an adobe wall can withstand direct rain. The top of the wall was sealed with a linseed oil - bees wax mixture (see photo just above).
The parts of the wall just exposed to rain have done fine. The crack and subsequent erosion of the wall occurred because of water being channeled by the thatch roof onto a small area.
Shelves in the office
Shelves in the kitchen...
Pun Pun logo on the office
In and around the intern quarters...
A cob bench
Bottle decorations in my room
Leah contemplates the perfect ratio of sand to clay...
3 comments:
Josh your photos show the harmony innate in the aesthetic of building from and within your environment. The buildings seem to emanate Peace and contemplation and joy~! They are a delight to view! The juxtaposition between these buildings and western buildings that fight against the environment and prevert natural products into unnatural polymers, plastics etc etc is like a picture of the Buddha versus the "Scream" :-O ( My type-set version of that painting!)
Peace~
Judith
Josh,
Do the bottles in the wall go through to the outside of the building? Are they like stained glass windows?
Mom
We (meaning Leah) cut the bottles in half and put two "butts" together in the wall. Other designs have put in whole bottles with the necks sticking out one side and the butts on the other. We wanted the "two-butt" effect.
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