Building from the Heart: Creating a Cob Meditation Building
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Uploaded by DanialMcCoy on Feb 2, 2011
My passion has always been building, and for a number of years I have been researching natural building methodes ranging from geodesic homes to beautifully sculpted cob houses. I love all the forms of earth based and earth friendly building techniques.
In 2008 I was given the opportunity to build a small structure on the property by a lovely couple who I was Living with, Linn and Dave. They are two beautiful souls whoes selfless donation of space has allowed many poeple to come and connect at this building, either by helping to build it directly or simply being there to admire it.
It is not finished, and Im not sure if it ever really will be. Like lie I imagine that it will continue to evolve in the beautiful way, through community. My thanks to all involved. Blessings and Love to you all, and too all beings!
The More technical stuff:
This building is located in Huntsville, Ontario Canada. It is constructed from Cob (sand, straw, and clay) and has an interior floor space of roughly 97 square feet. The walls are 12-14" thick and just over seven feet tall. The roof is seven sided, cedar shingled, and anchored to the building by deadman anchors. All the materials are sourced locally within 25km with the windows being either recycled or hand made locally. All in all the bulding has a diameter of 13 feet and is about 12 feet tall and took over 1000 man hours to complete (first time project for everyone lol).
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Thankyou kindly for you comment. Indeed there was alot of love floating through the air while creating this little building. :-)
11 months ago 2
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What a beautiful space! Looks like a lot of love went into this project!!
11 months ago 2
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What kind of beautiful musik is this? Deva Premal?? Not sure .... if so .. which cd? Thanks for the info :)
SalomeTirza 9 months ago
@SalomeTirza
Greetings SalomeTirza! The song is Gayatri Mantra by deva premal off the album "The Essense".
Blessings!
DanialMcCoy 9 months ago