1. Earthen Building Movement History of Using Mud for Shelter

2. Yemen

3. Taos, New Mexico

4. Wualate

5. 1/3 of world’s population live in earthen homes

6. Traditional decoration and culture

7. A way of life

8. Renewable resource

9. Traditional building - bamboo

10. Hardwood homes – became unaffordable after deforestation occurred

11. Earthen Building

12. Earthen Building Movement Materials Needed

13. Get in there!

14. Necessary tools

15. Rice husk

16. Straw

17. Helpers

18. Earthen Building Movement Building Process

19. Designing – making a model

20. Good overhang and gooddrainage

21. Get some diggers!

22. Digging the mud pit

23. Mixing the mud

24. Dancing in the mud

25. Passing the mud

27. Adobe Brick Making-Pour the mud in the frame, level it off..

28. Pull it up and start again

29. Viola!

30. Leave to dry in sun 7-10 days

31. Laying out foundation with adobe bricks

32. Raising up foundation for termite protection

33. Laying bricks with mud mortar

34. Laying each course

35. Interlocking bricks

36. Adding in door and window frames

37. Putting up the walls

38. Two stories

39. Arches

40. Hand plasters

41. Troweled plasters

42. Clay paints

43. Roofing laid on top of walls

44. Roofing laid in wall

45. Thatching

46. Earthen Building Movement Examples of Finished Buildings and Ideas

47. Wind catchers, Pakistan

48. Adobe fireplace, North America

49. Meeting hall, Wongsanit Ashram, Bangkok, Thailand

50. Niches, stairs, details

51. Women’s Center- International Women’s Partnership for Peace and Justice, Mae Rim, Chiang Mai

52. Adobe Restaurant, Chiang Mai

53. MunYeun – Sustainable Village, Chaiyapoom, Thailand

54. Tractor shed – bamboo in mud detail

55. Simple handmade windows – bicycle chain hinges and bamboo

56. Youth Center in Laos

58. Pun Pun

61. Relief tree

62. Fun with clay paints

63. Bathrooms with lime finish

64. Bathroom with cement plaster on bottom

65. The possibilities are endless…