Teach yourself how to build a plastic bottle house with cob and transform trash into a home. I build houses out of trash. I was inspired by the life of Kenyan Nobel laureate Wangarĩ Maathai, who said, ...

One type of building that's making its way out of the off-grid margins is the cob house. Made of a mixture of clay, straw, water, and sand, cob houses may be new to many folks in the United States, ...

A Montana couple who built a home from clay and straw brings to mind “The Three Little Pigs” fairytale. But Daniel and Katherine Ray, the ambitious and frugal home builders, are not interested in ...

It's time for the construction industry to bring back cob, but innovation is needed to solidify the age-old material's place back within our toolkits, design collective Cella tell Dezeen in this ...

Imagine it: a house that’s your own, no banker breathing down your throat, constructed not with cold steel or expensive timber but with the very earth itself straw, sand, and clay, shaped by your own ...