adobe brick - workshop

adobe brick workshop in LA Casa de Fang- Rupià, Spain

Material needed: clay, straw, water + dancing feet

clean the mold.  

put the mold to cleaned, wet area. 

to avoid voids fill the mold in parts, first the corners.

take big gravels out. 

shave it flat by hand.

take the mold out, don't shake it.

add texture if you like.

tadaa! ready! just let it dry,
 clay will absorb water according to it's negative charge.

The Sra Pou Vocational School, in Cambodia. sun dried mud bricks made from the local red earth

The Hotel Tierra Atacama, in Chile. stone, mud brick (adobe) and rammed earth

http://www.eartharchitecture.org/index.php?/categories/2-Mud-Brick 

http://www.architecturelist.com/tag/vernacular-architecture/

http://lauriebaker.net/work/work/alternative-building-materials-timeless-mud.html