How to build a Scottish Blackhouse. Vernacular architecture evolves reflecting the characteristics of the local environment, climate, culture, natural materials, technology and the experience of centuries of commun... |
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A thatched stone roundhouse in Wales. This beautiful stone thatched roundhouse is the storytelling room at Cae Mabon . In keeping with Welsh Celtic style the roundhouse is decorated at its entrance by... |
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Building a Reciprocal Roof with Tony Wrench. This is Tony Wrench's cordwood roundhouse den in Wales. Like many of Tony's homes it's based on a henge of roundwood timbers with the ends charred and dau... |
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Japanese joinery, oak, cherry and a dragon in the Czech Republic This is the entrance to one of the 400 year old stone houses on the banks of the Vltava River that snakes, like the tail of this dragon, through Cesky Kru... |
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The rammed earth Tulou of the Hakka people, China These are Tulou, built by the Hakka people of China. The Tulou are massive rectangular (representing Earth) or circular (representing Heaven) fortr... |
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Obos and Beehive homes are built using Nature's Arch... The Catenary. Obos in Pouss, Cameroon These are clay Obos (right) of the Musgum people in Pouss, Cameroon. They are designed in much the same... |
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Alfriston Clergy House, nearly lost to England's past This house was built by a prosperous farmer in 1350 using only natural materials that have now survived for almost seven centuries. In 1395 it was bought by the church and ... |
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The clay catenary domes, called obos, in the Cameroon. These are clay catenary domes, called obos, of the Musgum people in the Cameroon. They provide efficient cooling in the baking heat with a round ventilation hole at th... |
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Tinkers Bubble an Off-Grid community in Somerset, England. This is the communal kitchen at Tinkers Bubble, a small off-grid hillside woodland community on 40 acres (16 hectares) of land in rural So... |
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Storybook architecture on the shores of Vancouver Island, Canada On Canada's Vancouver Island you will find a beautiful example of storybook architecture created by the hands of two creative natural build... |
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