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Experiments in Modernizing Cob Construction
Stephen Hren
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DOI:10.17265/1934-7359/2024.06.003
Mud Dauber School of Natural Building, Silk Hope, NC, USA
This paper will discuss experiments using various forming systems combined with utilizing mechanical equipment, from cement mixers to excavators and skid steers with attachments, to accelerate construction of cob homes and greatly reduce the labor involved. Cob is a colloquial term for monolithic adobe, and refers to a masonry building technique used since ancient times that uses locally-sourced clay as a binder, with various aggregates from sand to small grit or stone, woven together with straw or other fiber and built in continuous layers to form a monolithic structure.
Cob, monolithic adobe, earth construction, formworks, hempcrete, mechanization, slipforms.
Journal of Civil Engineering and Architecture 18 (2024) 276-281 doi: 10.17265/1934-7359/2024.06.003
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