Jinnouchi-san and Noda-san inspecting the test wall.
Kyle testing the strength of the blocks. We now have a blog for the light straw clay project: 自然の家づくり職人ネット.
Before returning to Fujisawa on the 19, visited Toby at "Square One".
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2009-11-21
Straw-Clay Block Test Wall
November 18 and 19 was in Asahikawa, Hokkaido, working on a Straw-Clay Block Test Wall using blocks made a month ago.
Jinnouchi-san and Noda-san inspecting the test wall.
Kyle testing the strength of the blocks. We now have a blog for the light straw clay project: 自然の家づくり職人ネット.
Before returning to Fujisawa on the 19, visited Toby at "Square One".
Jinnouchi-san and Noda-san inspecting the test wall.Kyle testing the strength of the blocks. We now have a blog for the light straw clay project: 自然の家づくり職人ネット.Before returning to Fujisawa on the 19, visited Toby at "Square One".
2009-10-27
Light Straw Clay Blocks
October 22 and 23 made sample light straw clay blocks with Noda-san and Jinnouchi-san in Higashikawa, Hokkaido. Noda-san is a professional plasterer from Urakawa, Hokkaido. Jinnouchi-san built and lives in a straw bale home and directs a forestry NPO call MoriNet Hokkaido. Last spring, the three of us renovated Cafe Bura Bura in Urakawa, Hokkaido using straw bales and earthen plasters. 
We're trying to develop a natural insulation consisting of local materials for a model ecological home planned to be built next year. Hanamoto Construction Company supplied the materials and space to produce and dry the blocks.
We're trying to develop a natural insulation consisting of local materials for a model ecological home planned to be built next year. Hanamoto Construction Company supplied the materials and space to produce and dry the blocks.
2009-09-18
Travels with Ikuta-san in Chiba Prefecture
September 15-17 traveled in Chiba Prefecture with Shigeyuki IKUTA, secretariat of the Japan Straw Bale House Association.
Ikuta-san at "Love and Rice"
On September 15, collected data from Furyu, the straw bale cafe/gallery built last summer for Ikue MASADO (formally Saya TAKAGI).
Ikuta-san and I spent the evening at "Love and Rice", an intentional community in 鴨川 (Kamogawa), Chiba Prefecture.
Their motto is "Life is a Journey, not a destination". Fitting for a community that began as a collection of buses and vans.
They're now in the process of building a home, and I was asked to consult and help with the production of abode.
Inspired by a project in Norway called the Eco House, I've proposed the use of abode made of light-straw-clay. Light-straw-clay provides better insulation than traditional cob or adobe. It is also lighter than cob and traditional adobe, which may be more suitable for seismic zones. Light-straw-clay, having more organic matter (straw) than cob and adobe, is also more susceptible to moisture and decay, which will require greater attention to construction details. On September 16, we made test adobe of various sizes and compositions entirely from local materials within 1km.
Copped straw
Clay slip
Mix
Pack into a form
Dry
On Septebmer 16, visited the construction site of a home being built using traditional Japanese timber-framing.
Construction drawing used by Japanese tiber-framers
Had lunch at 鴨川自然王国 (literally, Kamogawa Kingdom of Nature), a sustainability center, cafe, and working farm founded by Toshio FUJIMOTO, leader of the "student movement", a student antiwar movement in the 60's and 70's, who's noncompliance closed universities in Tokyo. Fujimoto spent a couple of years in prison as a result.
Passive solar design at Kamogawa Shizen Oukoku
In the afternoon, visited Riko HIRATA, a carpenter by trade, but spends most of her time farming. Returned to Fujisawa late Thursday night.
Ikuta-san at "Love and Rice"
Ikuta-san and I spent the evening at "Love and Rice", an intentional community in 鴨川 (Kamogawa), Chiba Prefecture.
Their motto is "Life is a Journey, not a destination". Fitting for a community that began as a collection of buses and vans.
They're now in the process of building a home, and I was asked to consult and help with the production of abode.
Inspired by a project in Norway called the Eco House, I've proposed the use of abode made of light-straw-clay. Light-straw-clay provides better insulation than traditional cob or adobe. It is also lighter than cob and traditional adobe, which may be more suitable for seismic zones. Light-straw-clay, having more organic matter (straw) than cob and adobe, is also more susceptible to moisture and decay, which will require greater attention to construction details. On September 16, we made test adobe of various sizes and compositions entirely from local materials within 1km.
Copped straw
Clay slip
Mix
Pack into a form
DryThe width of the bricks was determined by the width of the framing members. Kamogawa has a heavy clay loam, suitable for light-straw-clay and rice cultivation.
On Septebmer 16, visited the construction site of a home being built using traditional Japanese timber-framing.
Construction drawing used by Japanese tiber-framers
Passive solar design at Kamogawa Shizen Oukoku
In the afternoon, visited Riko HIRATA, a carpenter by trade, but spends most of her time farming. Returned to Fujisawa late Thursday night.2008-12-19
November 2008
November 21-25 served as a staff member at the Japan Straw Bale House Association’s workshop and seminar in Tochigi-Prefecture. Construction continued on Nasu Dymaxion Village, a complex of load bearing straw bale buildings. 
The first building built last year was the Toilet Hut with living roof.
During this years workshop we raised and plastered the straw bale walls of the Kitchen Hut. 
Similar to the Toilet Hut, the interior is finished with an earthen plaster while the exterior is finished with lime plaster. In order to access the straw to monitor the moisture content of the straw using a GE Bale Master Moisture Meter, I set three PVC screw top lids into the wall. 
The lids are removed in the photo, but screw on to a short piece of pipe to fully seal the wall.
Had a successful sweet potato harvest.
We’re raising a couple of chicks in our research studio.
November 30 and December 1 visited Brown’s Field , a health and sustainabililty center in Chiba-Prefecture. Peter Buley, an American friend I met at Yestermorrow Design/Build School in Vermont, is building a tree house at Brown’s Field. http://www.brownsfield-jp.com/brownsfield.htm
I slept in a tree house that was built previously.
We visited a home being renovated with natural materials near by.
Peter helped with much of work on this home as well.
The home features rammed earth walls, light-straw-clay walls, and cordwood walls with an earth based mortar. 
Un-split bamboo is apparently embedded in the rammed earth walls.
The first building built last year was the Toilet Hut with living roof. During this years workshop we raised and plastered the straw bale walls of the Kitchen Hut. Similar to the Toilet Hut, the interior is finished with an earthen plaster while the exterior is finished with lime plaster. In order to access the straw to monitor the moisture content of the straw using a GE Bale Master Moisture Meter, I set three PVC screw top lids into the wall. The lids are removed in the photo, but screw on to a short piece of pipe to fully seal the wall.Had a successful sweet potato harvest.
We’re raising a couple of chicks in our research studio.November 30 and December 1 visited Brown’s Field , a health and sustainabililty center in Chiba-Prefecture. Peter Buley, an American friend I met at Yestermorrow Design/Build School in Vermont, is building a tree house at Brown’s Field. http://www.brownsfield-jp.com/brownsfield.htm
I slept in a tree house that was built previously.
We visited a home being renovated with natural materials near by. Peter helped with much of work on this home as well. The home features rammed earth walls, light-straw-clay walls, and cordwood walls with an earth based mortar. Un-split bamboo is apparently embedded in the rammed earth walls.
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