CabinBuilds.net: Montana Earth Bag Cabin by Kent

[Jon]

This cabin, built by Kent on kentscabin.blogspot.com, offers an in-depth look at a rarer method of cabin building: earthbag construction.

Bags of earth are tamped and stapled shut, and arranged in rows separated by barbed wire. Window and door openings are framed out in wood "ladders", and everything is then covered in adobe.

The advantages of earthbag construction are ease of assembly, speed, and lower cost. It's generally only viable with suitable fill dirt at the building location. Interestingly, the use of local materials, and the reduction of shipping costs, has led to the suggestion that earthbag construction could be economically used for building structures on other planets.

This is a fairly detailed build that stands out among the stick framed, timber, and log cabins because of its unique construction. Once finished, it looks like it emerged naturally from the hillside, in the middle of nowhere in Bozeman, Montana.



Montana Earth Bag Cabin by Kent on kentscabin.blogspot.com

Montana Earth Bag Cabin by Kent on kentscabin.blogspot.com

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