Of Clarke Snell and Tim Callahan Traduit of the American
by Loïc Cohen 360 pages - Format: 22 x 22,5 Printed cm (interior and cover) on
recycled paper.
• Cob. Boots of straw. strung Wood. Frame Light
wood Smeared of earth. Roof végétalisé
Do you want to construct yourself your ecological house
or you wish to assure the follow-up of the yard seriously? This work, written by
two specialists of the éco-habitat, supported by hundreds of diagrams and
photos, will be your precious guide.
The authors drag us in the adventure of the construction
of a small building. Step by step they explain us the particular techniques of
his/her/its four walls: wall made of strung wood, wall made of straw, wall made
of cob, wall to frame woods, as well as the installation of the roof végétalisé.
The narration lived of this construction is at a time a great technical, precise
and rigorous tool, and a reflection on the numerous ecological choices
henceforth to our disposition.
You will find the essential of that that you must know
to manufacture bricks of earth, to know the proportions of a cob, to bring up a
wall made of straw, to put an insulation in cellulose, to apply a sealer there /
lime... Without party took and with the worry to make benefit us fully of their
experience, the authors confide us their mistakes and their finds. To choose the
best site, to decide the good materials, to make use of the climate, to
reconcile ecology, economy and realism such is the big lines of this
indispensable manual to all écoconstructeur.
