Learn modern cob house building for a mortgage-free home using low-cost and local materials by following how to build a cob house step by step.

In this Dezeen Studio video, architecture reporter Amy Peacock answers everything you need to know about building with cob.

Daniel and Katherine Ray live debt-free in a 700-square-foot cob house that they built by hand. The couple now runs a business teaching others how to build their own sustainable houses amid rising ...

So autumn heralds the end of building. McCabe explains that cob always cracks and shrinks when drying, which means that minor repairs are routine during the process of construction.

It's time for the construction industry to bring back cob, but innovation is still needed, Cella collective tell Dezeen in this Building with Cob interview.

The Montana couple, who started dating in high school, first came across cob houses when they were in college. Cob is a natural building material made out of clay, sand, and straw.

Making homes out of clay, sand and straw — a material called “cob” — might raise eyebrows in earthquake country, but Bay Area devotees are hoping to gain acceptance for what they say is an ...

Steve Pfeiffer, engineering and technical codes manager for Seattle's Department of Planning and Development, said cob falls outside the building code, so planners would want documentation of how ...

Daniel and Katharine Ray worked on their house on their 5-acre property in the Bitterroot, building primarily out of cob -- a combination of dirt, clay, water and straw.

Balecob, a hybrid of straw and cob house building techniques, can offer unique flexibility to the natural builder. Start with a strong cob house stem wall.

"Cob is a low-carbon material for an alternative circular construction economy, made from clay, water, fibrous material and aggregates," Cella The post Cob can be "a mainstream building material ...

Making homes out of clay, sand and straw — a material called “cob” — might raise eyebrows in earthquake country, but Bay Area devotees are hoping to gain acceptance for what they say is an inexpensive ...