Autonomous Housing Study: Working Paper, Issue 11

40 kilometres alternative wall Assume volume BERKELEY bitumen Blockwork brick builder building labour built CAMBRIDGE cement clay content clay soil Cob walling COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH concrete block construction cost incentive cracking Density dome dried earth block earth walling eliminated energy material ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN LIBRARY finished form of roofing formwork foundations glass gravel ground floor hardcore increase in strength joists KEUPER kg/m kg/m³ Therefore weight labour content laid without mortar laths or reeds layer is approximately lime MARL materials for building method of building mixing normal on-site building materials on-site materials paint Parker Morris house plaster plywood possible prospective owner quarries rammed earth re-thatch Reed thatching RESERVE RETURN roofing material sand shingles shrinkage shuttering small cottage smaller windows soil particles stabilised earth stone walls straw structural suitable thatched roof thick three-bedroomed timber transport costs turf roof UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA vegetable fibre wall and ground walling material weight transported