Posted by: davidrabbit | March 27, 2010

Natural Building at Dancing Rabbit

Dancing Rabbit  is testament that tradition and evolution make for beautiful and sustainable homes. Naturally built homes here come in all different shapes and attitudes. Be it a rudimentary home for one or an elaborate design that grows to accommodate a family as it grows. There is great appreciation for building knowledge passed down through time.

Cob is a basic building material that has been used for thousands of years and forms a home that can be very long lasting.

Straw bales are a farming by-product with a relatively high r-value which makes it an economical and useful building material.

Recyling is HUGE.  So Dancing Rabbit converted a grain bin left on the land into housing.

Timber framing is a time tested technique that uses less wood than conventional framing design. 

Sometimes the best thing to do is reuse. This converted bus is a home that resembles found art.

A fine way to express art and beauty in a naturally built structure is with lime plaster, a preferable material to cement / stucco. plaster.

Dancing Rabbit is full of innovative and experimental means to live stainable, like my bricks made of clay, sand, and straw.

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