Natural Building, something from each country of
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This is a growing collection of natural homes from all over the world,
one home representing each country. Click on any of the
pictures below to visit the page, read more about the house,
follow links to builder's or owner's websites and, if you are a
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Roundwood house, England This is Ben
Law's roundwood and straw bale house and beautiful garden in
Prickly Nut Wood near Lodsworth, West Sussex, UK. |
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Stave
church, Norway
This is one of Norway's stave churches. Stave
churches are typically some 8m (26ft) tall made entirely from
wood without a single nail. |
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Thatched Oak Frame, France
It was originally built in the nearby town of
Selles, 12Km away, in 1420 by English carpenters during the
Hundred Years War. |
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Straw bale
house, Canada
Chris built the straw bale house in 2004 using
earthen plasters and all local materials. It's an off-grid
home without a straight wall in the house. |
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Natural Bathroom, Czech
Max has used natural clay, roundwood, stone
and mosaics to bring a stunning mixture of textures, patterns,
colour, warmth and light into the room. |
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Cave homes, Tunisia
The homes are grouped around a central courtyard and
connected to other courtyards with more rooms forming an
underground maze. |
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Straw bale house, Italy
This was the first straw bale house built in
Italy. It's a timber frame infill with clay plasters on the
inside and lime plaster on the exterior and earthen floors. |
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Sami turf house, Sweden
This is a traditional summer turf home for the
Sami people of the northern Scandinavian countries. |
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Cob
& straw house, Finland
The roof of this tiny cottage in Finland is
made from a ring of roundwood timbers interlocking and
supporting one another. |
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Adobe Igherm, Morocco
This one, some 400 years old, had fallen in to
disrepair like many others in the region. |
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Nenet Choom, Russia
The choom, home to the nomadic Nenet, uses
reindeer hides wrapped around wooden poles. |
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Blackhouses, Scotland
These are the stone blackhouses of Gearrannan
on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland. Originally built to share with
farm animals. |
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Straw bale house, Denmark
Poula-Line built her straw bale house in Fri &
Fro (Free and Happy) ecoVillage in Egebjerg, Denmark. |
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Straw Bale, Switzerland
Lisa and Louis took 250 tons of CO2 out of the
atmosphere when they built their straw bale guesthouse. |
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Roundhouse, Ethiopia This is a traditional split
bamboo plaited roundhouse by the Sidama people of Ethiopia. |
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Straw bale house, Poland This is a straw bale home built
by natural building architect Paulina. The cosy cottage is
near Warsaw in Poland. |
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Clay obos, Cameroon
These are clay catenary domes, called obos, of
the Musgum people in the Cameroon. They provide efficient
cooling in the baking heat. |
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Cob house, Romania
This is one of the cob homes build by
architect and natural builder Ileana Mavrodin of Casa Verde in
Banat, Romania. |
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Arsh of the Toda, India
In the Nilgiri hills of Taml Nadu, India live
the Toda people in rolling meadows and shola forests. |
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Clay Chaitya, Tibet
The shape of the Stupa, for which there are 8
designs, represents the seated figure of Siddhartha Gautama
(Buddha). |
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Straw bale house, Wales
This is Simon Dale's new home in Lammas
ecoVillage. It cost about $6,000 to build, maybe a bit less. |
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Straw bale house, USA
The straw bale home has a phragmite reed
thatched roof, earthen plasters with natural paints and uses
solar electricity. |
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Farmhouse, Faroe Islands
900 years old and still lived in to this day.
It was used as the bishop's residence back to the 12th
century. |
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Cave homes, Turkey Ortahisar is one of the
many villages that occupy this labyrinth of caves where thick
walls keep the homes cool in the 40C summers. |
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Cave homes, China
The homes, some with stylish pillars of stone,
are arranged in two village clusters supplied with fresh water
from a natural spring. |
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Cob oven, Croatia
A double chamber cob oven gives a cleaner burn
than a standard cob oven. |
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Jungle Treehouse,
Laos
Local people built treehouses and a network of
zip lines through the canopy of Bokeo Nature Reserve to
provide accommodation in the treetops to study the wildlife. |
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Willow nests,
Netherlands
The hamlet of willow sculptures is in Venlo,
Netherlands where everything in has a purpose linked with
sustainable living. |
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Rocket Mass Heater, Estonia
Rocket stoves have very efficient combustion,
where the furnace temperature ranges from about 1000C up to
1100C. |
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Bamboo and Rice, Iran
The shape of the shelter has good resistance
to horizontal forces such as wind or even earthquakes.
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Rammed Earth, Bhutan
A typical Bhutanese house is a three storey
rammed earth structure with space for livestock on the ground
floor. |
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Treehouse, Japan
Takashi Kobayashi is a treehouse builder who lives in
Kamakura, Japan. He built this treehouse using driftwood
gathered on the island of Hokkaido. |
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Tiny House, France
Benji used two layers of old pullovers soaked
in a milky solution of lime over a lattice of woven branches. |
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