百姓　Hyakusho

2011-10-07

韓国ジョンジュ市　Jeonju City, South Korea

6日にインチョンに着いて、バスでジョンジュ市へ行きました。

Arrived in Seoul on October 6 and took a bus to Jeonju in southwestern Korea. Jeonju is famous for its traditional architecture and good food. On the evening of the 6th we had dinner with Bohyoung Sohn and Professor Lim at a restaurant where one purchases a pot of Makkori, a fermented Korean rice drink (about 5% alcohol), and a table full of side dishes comes complementary. On the morning of the 7 we toured the town of Jeonju.

7日午前中にジョンジュ市にある伝統建築を見学しました。

Hanoak, traditional Korean architecture

ジョンジュ市の住宅がほとんど瓦屋根です。

Jeonju is famous for its tile roofs

瓦で屋根を葺いている現場を2軒見学しました。

Visited two homes being roofed with tiles

赤土で瓦を固定していました。

Red clay soil is used to secure the tiles and provide insulation.

垂木の上に竹小舞をかけて、土を載せて、断熱を取ります。下から漆喰を塗ります。

A lattice of bamboo is built on top of the rafters to support the red clay soil, and plastered from below with lime

2011-10-03

ストローベイル建築の耐震性　Earthquakes and Straw Bale Building with some radiation

10月3日にストローベイル壁内温湿度データを回収しに福島県飯舘村へ行ってきました。2010年2月にまでな家モデル・エコ住宅に付属している作業場でストローベイル壁を作りました。去年下塗だけ塗って、今年中塗と上塗を塗る予定がありました。しかし、放射能汚染のせいで、飯舘村が全体移転します。

までいな家キッチンガーデンの空中放射能量が2.33マイクロシーベイルト/アワーです。

Atmospheric radiation level of 2.33micro-seivert/hour recorded at the adjacent kitchen garden.

October 3rd traveled to Iitate Village to collect hygrothermal data from a straw bale wall built in February, 2010. Initially, only the base coat was plastered. The brown and finish coats were schedule to be done this year. But those plans ended with the March 11th 2011 Tohoku earthquake and subsequent radioactive pollution. It was recommended that the entire community relocate.

3月11日に飯舘村での震度は6弱です。までいな家のアースオーブンが崩れたり、オーブンの屋根のアンカーボルトが曲がたり、舗装が割れたりしました。しかし、ベイル壁に皹割が入らなかったです。地震に対して、在来軸組構法とストローベイル壁の融合性能が証明されたと考えられます。

On March 11th, Iitate Village experienced a weak 6 on the Japanese 7-level seismic scale. Near the straw bale building, the earthen oven I helped build last year was thrown off its concrete stand, the anchor bolts of the roof structure over the oven were bent, and there were cracks in the concrete pavement around the building. But there wasn't even a crack in the straw bale wall. Although the success of the straw bale wall can be credited to the building's timber frame, it provides an example illustrating the earthquake resistance of this form of timber frame-straw bale building.

2011-10-02

大島邸　Oshima's Straw Bale Home

On October 2nd, installed temperature and relative humidity sensors in the straw bale walls of Hideto Oshima's straw bale home in Gifu-Prefecture. 10月2日に岐阜県にある大島邸のストローベイル壁に温湿度測定センサーを設置しました。

2011-09-29

大東文化大学 Daito Bunka University

9月26日から29日まで東京で行われたUIA世界建築大会に参加しました。27日に論文を発表して、29日にUIAのツアーとして、東京にある環境建築を3箇所見学しに行きました。
September 26-29th, participated in the International Union of Architect's 2011 conference in Tokyo. Presented a paper on the 27th and attended a tour of three "green" buildings in Tokyo on the 29th.

その一つは中村勉先生に設計されました大東文化大学です。

One of those buildings was Daito Bunka University designed by Ben Nakamura.

透明の太陽光発電パネル

Transparent photovoltaic panels

自然エネルギー掲示板

Renewable Energy Meter

2011-09-15

Straw Bale Home in Karuizawa 伊藤邸in軽井沢

September 1-9 and 12-15 finished the interior of a straw bale home in Karuizawa, Nagano Prefecture. September 3-4, we had a small workshop which was very helpful. A description of the workshop and photos can be found at the link below.

9月1-9日と12-15日に長野県軽井沢にある伊藤邸のストローベイル内装を仕上げました。9月3-4日にワークショップを行いました。とても助かりました。ありがとうございます。ワークショップの様子は下のリンクで見えます。
http://blog.sideriver.com/kolonihave/2011/09/post-73e2.html

Plaster in bathroom consists of zeolite, lime, volcanic soil from the building site, fiber and seaweed glue

Earthen plaster finish

Brown coat on exterior

2011-09-09

Hijisai (土祭) Earth Festival

September 11 attended Hijisai (土祭), a festival featuring earth. The name literally means soil festival.

Rammed earth stage constructed by Hasado Shuhei-san, a renown plasterer in Japan

Earthen plastered display

2011-08-23

水硬性石灰　カナダの土壁　大津　Hydraulic Lime and Otsu Earthen-Lime Plasters at Harvest Haven Health, Lethbridge, Canada

August 1-23, traveled to Lethbridge, Canada to help plaster several buildings at Harvest Haven Health, an eighty-acre, organic, mixed market farm with an on-farm store. The farm is a synergistic diversification of beef cattle, sheep, layer and broiler chickens, turkeys, pasture, hay, grain fields, vegetable and herb gardens, strawberries, raspberries, bee hives for honey, and an orchard of apples, plums and cherries.

Mark and I translate for Ishibadate Online School of Japanese Timber Framing and Natural Building. In 2010, Mark invited Mr. Yoshitomo Takahashi to Harvest Haven Health to teach a course on Japanese timber framing and lead the construction of a 4000 square foot traditional Japanese timber frame.

Japanese Timber Frame

Many of the timbers were milled with a chainsaw

In addition to the Japanese timber frame "store", a home, guest house and boiler house are also being built. The store, home and guest house feature a durisol foundation and light straw clay walls.

Durisol Block

Light Straw Clay Walls

Durisol Blocks are a combination of wood fiber-cement and rock wool insulation. In light straw clay construction, a mixture of mainly straw and some clay slip are packed into permanent or removable forms. In this case, the forms are removed, leaving a surface similar to straw bale walls.

Light Straw Clay Mixer

Larson trusts are constructed onto the timber frame to accommodate the straw clay walls. The interiors are finished with American Clay and the exteriors with hydraulic lime (水硬性石灰).

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