Today in Flagstaff, Arizona, kids from across the Plateau met with Beyond Adobe at the Coconino Community College for an adobe brick making class. The kids learned to identify soils good for adobe brick, field test the soil, mix the mud and yes, hand-form the mud into the forms to make 3″ x 2″ [...]
Archive for October, 2009
Muddy Hands “form” the Future of Building.
October 25, 2009Beyond Adobe & Crew Making Pressed Adobe Bricks
October 21, 2009The Israeli crew from Diamond Mountain University works with Beyond Adobe to make pressed adobe bricks. The adobes are made purely of earth and are not stabilized with cement or asphalt. The bricks will be stacked in the walls of a retreat home in Diamond Mountain. Another hard day of work! [...]
N. Arizona Adobe Workshop
October 20, 2009Beyond Adobe returns to Norhtern Arizona’s Sustainable Living Fair this week October 24th. Two workshops will be presented; Making Small Adobe Bricks for Kids and Making and Applying Earth Plasters for Grown-ups.
Adam Wayne will be the workshop hosts and will provide all the mud required to make bricks, plaster [...]
