Jul 18, 2019
Dating back to 2014, this episode of Living Big visits an eco-retreat that is doing earth bag construction,Β This is one of my favorite forms of earth building.
βThis week we take a tour of the tiny earth houses of Solscape. These beautiful natural buildings are each less than 10 square meters, and sit overlooking the ocean, amongst the beautiful hills of Raglan, New Zealand.Β
The Earth Domes were built using a technique called earth-bag construction, where sturdy sacks are filled with material such as rock, sand and clay and then compacted down. The buildings each have a ferrocement roof and are finished off with a lime plaster.β
