Cob Cottage at Rainbow Ranch
Buda, Texas

Earthen cottage built for an "at risk" youth education organization. Most of the materials and labor were found or donated. A natural building featuring:

• Siting for passive solar heating and natural ventilation
• Eighteen inch thick walls of earth, sand and straw (cob), finished with lime plaster
• Many building materials found onsite (wood, rock, clay)
• Earthen floor with linseed oil finish
• Salvaged building materials, including windows and door
• Built-in cob bench
• Arched doorways, free-form windows

Completed: 1998
Client Reference: Richard Morgan, 512-505-3709