The CEB Story - To Build a Village - Open Source Ecology

Here we describe our adventures with building to date, as we are developing open source equipment for all the tasks. This is towards creating the world's first replicable, post-industrial village.

http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/?p=485


We are looking for people who are interested in building the world's first replicable open source self-sufficient decentralized permaculture village - to transcend survival and evolve to freedom.

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[jbraly]

Questions... floors for your dwellings? Surely not living on dirt.... and what about a Stuco or adobe like covering for the inside and outside of the bricks? Wouldnt that not only be more pleasing to look at, but provide more support?

[marcinose]

We are in NW Missouri. We do actually have just dirt floors. We were considering some kind of stucco, although I think the plan might just be to cover the walls with a mud plaster, which is ok because the walls are covered with overhang.

-Jeremy

[techtipsforparents]

Would this sort of building work in any region of the US or does the type of earth play a major role? I would imagine in areas where the earth is hard clay it would work well but in areas with sandy, loose earth it would not. WHat have you found to be true in your research?

[marcinose]

I think it needs more clayey soil, with a little sand mixed in. I think the bricks made with looser soil fell apart too easily. We haven't gotten to do much testing yet, but we will when we finish CEB prototype 2.

-Jeremy

[TheDateLady]

We live in Egypt and make bricks by hand, with 4 guys we make 2000 bricks a day as well. We will contact your website, but for now, If you were to dig a hole and set you machine down, under ground, you could then fill by wheel barrel...saving you time and labor... Good luck , great work and well be in touch!

[TheDateLady]

My entire place has mud plaster...except for the Kitchen and Bathrooms.... OR the locals have outdoor Kitchens/Out Houses cause MUD Buildings (OLD) typically cant have water inside, duh. YOU CAN put a cement "Plaster" (5cm) on the walls right over the mud bricks...save that MORTAR! Use a mud mortar...you must use stone w/cement for the foundation, typically 30 cm above the ground...then start the mud const.....I use a regular brick for the corner posts & fill the rest in with mud brick..easy!

[missourigal69]

Im in SW Mo....all rock, packed in red clay down here...Y'all have better soil up there.

[TheDateLady]

IF you can make the walls extra thick, (mine are 60 cm and 80 cm thick...have fewer windows and doors, then WHATEVER you use to cool or heat is maintained.... Sheltering walls (roofs) from direct sunlight ( covered porches ) cut the heat immensely, a HIGH-double roof also works wonders.... The Rocket stove w/ winding chimney pipes thru the built-in-seating, then thru the upstairs bed /bathroom is great too... We use an evaporative cooler, but chicken farms have coolerpad wall panels. GREAT WORK

[a10fjet]

youre a great narrator

[MrXaipex]

wow!

[menonfire12]

Oh this proyect is so cool, so cool!

[torroland]

genial, me gustaria tener mas datos, soy de culiacan sinaloa.

[joshwand]

What about an elevator to load the hopper? Then you'd just have to move the earth longitudinally with shovels or a front-end loader onto the elevator... you could load the earth onto a horizontal belt feeding the elevator to have more surface area to work with. You could also stick a rotary mixer at the top of the elevator, too, to make the earth uniform.

[poepflater]

@marcinose Here in south africa in days of old, houses had floors made from cow manure, look it up, its nothing like what you think like, its solid and smooth.