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Albany Pallet Building

In 2011, I taught a 3 week workshop and gave a presentation at the Natural Building Extravaganza in NC. A student in the course, Max Livingstone, was intrigued by the pallet building projects I had worked on and consulted with me on how to build his own. In 2015, after Livingstone had completed the main …

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Chicken Palace

Stop motion photography by Jonathan Shaw We had a lot of fun at the 2010 Village Building Convergence! In addition to the straw-clay retrofit, Eva Edleson led the construction of this of this Chicken Palace with Sol Crawford and Mark Lakeman at the Planet Repair Institute. These projects were designed by Mark Lakeman. It is …

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Straw-Clay Retrofit at Planet Repair Institute

This year, during the Village Building Convergence 2010, Eva led the installation of one of Portlands first residential straw-clay retrofit projects. In just a few days, with many hands, we filled walls that previously had no insulation. The new insulation is estimated to have an R-Value of between R-1.6 and R-2 per inch. When finished, …

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Pallet Structure- The Fuddy

In September of 2009 Eva designed and led the construction of a pallet structure, called the Fuddy,at Spirit Pine Sanctuary. (Click on images to enlarge!) All of the pallets were free and reclaimed from a nearby farm. The pallets were stuffed with straw-clay insulation and protected with an earthen plaster. I was inspired to build …

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