Jun 11-19, 2011 in Bandon OR Max & Eva taught a 9 day intensive course called Complete Cob. Our project was to build a pavillion that is a large part of a budding outdoor kitchen at the home of Bob and Tammy Van. During the nine days, we sculpted this structure with local soil, driftwood, […]
This year at the VBC, Eva led the second phase of a light straw clay retrofit in SE Portland at the Planet Repair Institute! Light Straw Clay technology has been used for centuries! People love the low cost, low toxicity, and its use of sustainable, native and locally available materials! Over a ten day period,
This is a very exciting and experimental masonry heater built by many hands through a workshop at the Cob Cottage Company in southwestern Oregon. The challenge – that Ianto Evans is so consistently a champion of – was to build a masonry heater that was made of local materials and through local craftsmanship. Flemming Abrahamsson,
Check out this sweet video of the Wood-Fired Barrel Oven! Eva led the construction of a wood fired cook stove, a barrel oven, and a hot tub at the Natural Building Extravaganza in Asheville, NC! There were many wonderful people who participated in the amazing 3 week program, organized by Kleiwerks International. Additional projects included
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
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,
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
This summer has been an exciting time to deepen our craft in masonry heater building. Here, Jerry Frisch of Lopez Quarries and I are standing in front of a heater that I assisted him on in a new house on the Puget Sound in the state of Washington. It is a basic Finnish contraflow design
The Loop de Loop Bench at Bring Recycling Center in Eugene, OR was designed and built by Erica Ann Bush. Max, Eva and Fezzo teamed up with Erica to apply the toilet tank lid bench seat, roof structure, ceramic tiles & finish plaster. Check out Erica’s awesome blog, Mud for Everyone
The tropical elements enhance this field tile and mosaic installation in a shower stall
Living room of artists’ home, patch work mosaic done all with recycled tile.
