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The Moon wall is clay plaster. The cloud was
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| the playhouse | ||||||||||||
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| The playhouse was built by our three children and their friends from Mexico during the summer of 2002. Local materials were primarily used as well as a collage of natural building techniques from cob, straw-clay blocks, bales, sand bags, stone, and thatch. | ||||||||||||
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| Stone foundation in front. Sandbags filled with soil-cement then plastered with cement and lime were used for the back wall foundation. | ||||||||||||
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| Cob (claysoil, long straw and aggregate) formed the round corner with recycled wine bottles in the wall. | ||||||||||||
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| The kids made cob balls to form interior bench walls that were filled with compacted dry dirt then plastered on top. | ||||||||||||
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| Local juniper poles were collected after a large wildfire on the property. Many of the strawclay blocks used were black from also being charred in the fire. | ||||||||||||
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| The thatched roof was initially cattails but is now being redone with beargrass. | ||||||||||||
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| The interior. | ||||||||||||
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| In the summer of 2004 we had a master plaster craftsman, Shuyhei Hasadosan, conduct a workshop on clay and lime plaster in Japan. He finished off several of the exterior walls on the playhouse.
The Moon wall is clay plaster. The cloud was |
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