Rainwater Greenhouse - Update

Getting cobby!

the lovely Amit Chertoff, joins in for a day, just before heading back to Israel

Ethan is at home in the garden

Prepping bottles for more cob

reclaimed tile, thrift store grout, and tumbled broken bottle chips

create the potting surface

workshop participants get dirty with light straw clay

and base coat plasters

even old time friend, Max Edelson, stops by to get muddy for the afternoon

Lawrence is a pro at this rate, and helps teach the mixing techniques

Oiling the cut-face of the urbanite wall makes it really beautiful!

A little bit of bamboo conceals a less than perfect plaster detail

The main entrance begs you to enter

Chinking at all possible points of infiltration

Rainwater Greenhouse - From the Sketchbook

A sample of the sketches that moved this project along.

Started the design work in May.

Notice how the design changed (for the better) up until construction started in mid July.

Basically the 'final design'

Passive solar strategies and structural details finally sorted out.