Green Roof Cob House

Building the living roof.

Green roof cob house.

For a first time builder a yurt style roof like cyric30 suggested would probably be easiest. Once the perimeter of the roof was covered with sod we covered the rest of the roof. A green roof can lower the temperature in your house improve local air quality and help add green space in urban areas where concrete is king. This building is the work of artist designer and architect hundertwasser.

It is built with straw bale walls and limestone plaster log roof rafters an. Cob building lends itself to incorporating salvaged and eclectic building materials. I build cob as well as straw bale in texas just northwest of houston we are currently offering 2 workshops starting in march the first is a split 20 day workshop 10 day cob and 10 day straw bale crammed together and the second is a 10 day cobwood cordwood cob free standing bathroom in april. Video tour of an incredible underground hobbit home that is completely off grid.

A cob house in a true sense this one built by michael buck a 59 year old farmer and retired teacher is unique because no power tools were used in its making michael created this one room mud house over a span of eight months with a budget of just us 250. Since i already wrote about cutting sod for my roof i will describe how the sod was loaded. The build involved mixing and laying 2000 tonnes of cob all during warm sunny weather so it could dry rock solid. Doing the edge was the trickiest part since i had the fold the epdm underneath itself and leave a little bit exposed to protect the edge logs.

To create a green roof you lay down a waterproof barrier material for drainage a layer of soil and plants source. The cob house. It can also provide a nesting area for birds. This is just the beginning of the year and.

Basically a green roof is a sort of rooftop garden. You would place a bond beam at the top of the cob wall ideally concrete and rebar or alternatively airplane cable connecting all the members of the roof in one big circle they way the roof is designed is to act in compression while exerting force on the bond beam which will act in tension. This hobbit house in wales was built in four months and cost about 4 600 in building materials.