ASBP Material Mornings – Natural Fibre Insulation Join the ASBP for the first edition of our new Material Mornings series of informal online drop-in ‘surgery’ sessions.

🌿 @asbpuk.bsky.social Material Mornings launches with a session on Natural Fibre Insulation.

📅 Thu 12th Feb 2026, 11:00 - 12:00, online.

🧰 Live, surgery-style discussion.

🔗 asbp.org.uk/events/material-mornings-nfi

#biobasedmaterials #naturalbuilding #insulation #construction

#greenbuilding #ecohouse #SelfBuild
#HempHouse
#Hempcrete
#EcoBuilding
#SustainableBuilding
#LowCarbon
#NaturalBuilding
#DIYBuild

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Español: La imagen muestra un pequeño edificio construido con piedra, adobe y madera, con un oasis de fondo en el Salar de Atacama. Estas instalaciones se utilizan como centro de visitantes y vestuarios en la Laguna Cejar, en el desierto de Atacama, en Chile.

Laguna Cejar - Salar de Atacama, Chile. One of the things I so admired about the park facilities in the Atacama was the small buildings thoughtfully designed and built from local materials.

#salardeatacama #lagunacejar #arquitectura #desiertodeatacama […]

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Adobe bricks are made from the earth you walk on and you can build with them. It’s free!

#naturalbuilding #adobebricks

Alternative skills are necessary in times of crisis. Teaching community to make adobe bricks, an indigenous way of natural building.

#adobe #adobebricks #naturalbuilding

Hydrated lime in a tub, salt in a bag, and a box of borax in a garage

#naturalbuilding attempt at whitewash

(no, not the water-thinned paint [retching noises] that so many folks like Martha Stewart promotes)

Mise en place: hydrated lime, salt, borax

Hydrated lime in a tub, salt in a bag, and a box of borax in a garage

#naturalbuilding attempt at whitewash

(no, not the water-thinned paint [retching noises] that so many folks like Martha Stewart promotes)

Mise en place: hydrated lime, salt, borax

Excited to get away from here for a few days and go out to the Cascades for a Hempcrete design workshop by Next Genesis Design. Going to be awesome to finally work on a hempcrete build and learn more about the best natural building system out there.

#hempcrete #naturalbuilding

A thin piece of hazel shaped in a U with sharpened ends to make a wooden staple.

Hazel staple pushed into straw bale wall to hold in electrical wires.

Day five natural clay plaster:
Bedding in electric wires using hazel staples bent into a U shape, sharpened at both ends to be pushed into the straw bale wall.
#NaturalBuilding #StrawBale.

Corner photo of timber framed straw bale house with first ‘body coat’ of clay plaster applied.

Day four Natural clay plaster course:
Body coat (clay, sand, fibre) added to walls. Initially with hands and the smoothed with floats.
#NaturalBuilding #StrawBale

A rounded window reveal

Clay soaked straw

Day three of natural clay plaster course:
Building up the window reveals using clay coated straw and then a 10mm ‘body’ coat of clay, sand and chopped hemp.
#StrawBale. #NaturalBuilding

Straw bale window reveals:
Adding in straw coated with clay slip to shape the internal window reveals.
The hessian is used to create an even and consistent surface for the ‘body coat’ of clay plaster that comes next.
#StrawBale. #NaturalBuilding

A large mechanical mixer called a roller pan mixer

Top vie inside of a large mechanical mixer

Day two of natural clay plastering:
Out comes the roller pan mixer - buckets of clay, sand, hemp. Go in and fabulous plaster come out
#NaturalBuilding.

Clay mix of clay and water blended to a thick batter consistency.

Rae kneeling on the floor demonstrating the application of the clay slip to a straw bale wall.

A straw bale wall that has had clay slip applied - revealing all the gaps and dents that will need to be filled before the next coat

A straw bale wall with both the slip coat and additions of ‘dubbing’ - clay coated straw wedged into cracks and dents.

Day one of natural clay plastering with the School of Natural Building:
Mixing slip (the reveal coat)
Applying by hand - rubber gloves on!
#NaturalBuilding

📊 14 months of IEQ data in a straw bale home in England.
🌬️ No MVHR. No overheating.

Read the paper: sciexplor.com/articles/jbd...

👏 Congrats Janice A. Foster, Filbert Musau, Barbara Jones & Sam Foster

#sbuk #ieq #naturalbuilding

My Aventon cargo ebike with an ample load of a hundred and 20 pounds of heavy hardware and building supplies

Loaded for bear

And by bear, I mean a little #naturalbuilding down at the hardware store.

A few people stopped by as I loaded up to ask questions and show some interest in the cargo ebike situation.

In talks about a project proposing an #earthenfloor. IMO this is the pinnacle of natural building. Walls and roofs are easy compared to your ground contact points- which require special consideration. especially in colder regions.

#naturalbuilding #greenbuilding #sustainability

Heading to Sumatra next week to run a bamboo workshop 🌿
Can’t wait to build, share, and learn from this incredible part of the world.
#BambooWorkshop #SustainableArchitecture #NaturalBuilding

If you can tie on rafters, surely you can tie on thatch too—right? Makes intuitive sense to me. I’ll let you know if it works 🤓

#naturalbuilding #wattleanddaub #anglosaxon #thatch #artistmade #experiment #funwithbuilding #ancientfutures

A picture of a cob house prototype by Alex Sumerall from This Cob House

Small Cob Structure Prototype by Alex Sumerall of This Cob House | Cob is a natural, ancient building material typically made with soil, aggregate (sand), clay, and water, making healthy, affordable, and durable homes.
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Hashtags: #cob #cobhouse #naturalconstruction #naturalbuilding

"DIRT floor costs $0, looks LUXURY 🌱✨ #naturalbuilding #strawbale #earthenfloor #satisfying #puremichigan #diy"

#ecomediacenter #bluebee #redbud #bluebeeecological #cityrepair #btown #beetown #cob #earthen #naturalbuilding #art #design #ecodesign #books #littlefreelibrary #littlefreepantry #micro #greenbldg #ecosrchitecture #greenroof #earth #ecosystem #gardens #localfood #foodsovereignty #foodsecurity #bees

Very excited to be welcoming highly respected Susan Hagan, natural builder extraordinaire to Chumbaria this summer. Cob clay pizza oven building course. Pizza, mmm!
#naturalbuilding #cob #pizzaoven #woodfired

A great example of organic architecture by renowned bamboo design firm Ibuku. This one spotted at Alchemy Yoga, just outside Ubud, Bali.
#BambooArchitecture #Ibuku #SustainableDesign #AlchemyYogaBali #NaturalBuilding #EcoArchitecture #BambooRoof #BalineseDesign #OrganicArchitecture

🚨 Today – 1300 (GMT)

Timber Framing for Straw Bale Construction 🪵📐🏗️

Designing timber frames for straw bale buildings is a skill - Hawkland brings real-world experience to the table.

🎟️ Register here: bit.ly/4hJkGr2

#strawbuilding #timberframing #timber #naturalbuilding #biobasedmaterials

#cob #design #naturalbuilding View of cob window design and construction with rock stem wall Wattle and daub on the left wall unfinished

#cob #design #naturalbuilding Elevated view of cob window design and construction with rock stem wall Cord wood along right wall

#wattleanddaub #naturalbuilding View of wattle and daub back wall

Hike on #elpital the highest peak in #elsalvador overlooking #honduras

Cob, wattle and daub, and cord wood #naturalbuilding sauna construction in #elsalvador

‘Like a game of black-belt level Jenga’: inside the ancient art of Japanese carpentry From the earthquake-defying joints that support a 13th-century temple to the delicacy of sashimono puzzle boxes, a new exhibition shows off the myriad possibilities of this centuries-old craft

What's that, The Guardian? An article about an exhibit on stunning Japanese wooden joinery techniques?

#naturalbuilding

www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Timber framing or load-bearing straw bale?

🌿🏗️ 25th March, 1pm - 2pm, Hawkland will explore their approach to timber framing for straw bale builds, using their latest project as a case study.

🎟️ Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/timber-fra...

#strawbalebuilding #timberframing #naturalbuilding

This. Find that thing for you. That’s why I’m here to advocate for a better built environment and a better natural world through better practices and regulations. #UrbanDesign #HabitatRestoration #NaturalBuilding #BuildingScience
#MiyawakiForests
#Hempcrete
#RenewableEnergy
#Cycling
And on and on.

Ten Natural Building Materials in Common Use Natural building, a key discipline within the broader scope of green building and sustainable architecture, emphasizes the use of local, abundant, and minimally processed materials to construct environmentally-friendly buildings. This approach focuses on building homes and structures that have a minimal environmental impact while enhancing the quality of life for occupants. It aligns with the principles of sustainability by utilizing materials that are renewable, reusable, and locally sourced, and by reducing the dependency on modern, industrialized construction processes that are resource-intensive and environmentally taxing.

Ten Natural Building Materials in Common Use: https://wp.me/p2M8ej-1Bl #NaturalBuilding #SustainableConstruction #EcoFriendlyHomes #GreenArchitecture #EarthFriendlyDesign #Architecture