I've seen cabins like that from about 400 years ago and they were in better condition. Since the 1920s they got turned into a museum and were thus preserved, though. Living back then must have been tough. They didn't even have a stove.

And 3D printing in concrete was done years prior to this (https://v2.incogtube.com/watch?v=DQ5Elbvvr1M), so this dirt one isn't necessarily innovative, but both projects make it more likely I will be able to print my own bunker.

I love pork dumplings.

Oh, sure. I’m fiercely curious about 3D printing houses, particularly out of meaningful materials like a pseudoconcrete, not this dirt that can’t stand up to a tornado. Being able to 3D print insulating pockets of a tough material at personal house scales will be an absolute revolution.

The result is underwhelming, but the general tech to 'print' houses is pretty cool and like normal 3D printing pretty much all the shapes are possible.

Cucinella’s practice which is focused on “humane” architecture, a crossover of low and high tech worlds.

Translation: “made up bullshit that doesn’t actually mean a goddamn thing and which serves solely to destroy Western society and objective standards of beauty.”

The aesthetics of this house

It has none. It looks like a pork dumpling.

a beautiful, healthy, and sustainable home

No, no, and no, respectively.

The shape and the external ridges also enable the structural balance of the house.

No, they don’t.

The building is made from 350 12mm layers, and 60 cubic metres of natural materials for an average consumption of less than 6kW.

Wait, it only took 6 fucking kilowatts to run the machine to build this thing? He needs to stop everything he’s doing (because he’s totally shit at it) and focus EXCLUSIVELY on this. This is a goddamn revolution. You get THAT sort of energy savings from building a real house (you know, something that a human being would want to inhabit) and you’ll be a billionaire. That’s the sort of thing that Musk needs to be doing. This guy is going to squander the potential of this tech.

Not sure if I'd call it a house. Looks more like a vacation home. Also wonder what the acoustics are inside.

He just posted a follow-up on his other channel, with more details: https://v2.incogtube.com/watch?v=hOyGO9wkn4U

An interesting trick is he pre-heats work pieces to help hot glue bind to wood (of course, he's in Canada in a cold workshop).

The other Youtuber he mentions at the end is https://v2.incogtube.com/user/wintergatan2000 with his elaborate crank and marble mechanisms.

That book looks interesting, thanks. The Natural Building Blog site (whose authors have also written books on it, the late Owen Geiger and Kelly Hart) has some posts on building codes. Most of the blog's reports on legal success are about strawbale and cob, but they mention (expensive) engineer approval for earthbags, which is always an option if you can't escape to a free county or need to get cohabitants to trust it.

I remember a documentary on those desert dwellers. Unfortunately, their outcast society precluded cooperating on a decades-long proof of concept like the original tire-rammed earthship. And I guess they were too mobile for earthbags to work.

The late Monolithic Dome Institute guy sparked my imagination with his experiments with basalt roving and reinforcement on small, strong domes that don't take moving tons of soil to build. But even easier, Aircrete Harry plans on building multiple lightweight domes on his property, and he can pour his mix, instead of using a bunch of expensive and fiddly spray equipment. He's living my dream so far. Though before I start sewing together airforms, I want to try slipform or cast aircrete building. These techniques seem like the cheapest, most-effective ways to throw up durable structures, which can be reinforced with a denser mix later for burial (or built on top of a stem wall for partial burial). But all I've done sit back and watch so far.

If you want a great book, check out: https://www.amazon.com/Earthbag-Building-Tricks-Techniques-Natural/dp/0865715076

It's been one of my favorite coffee table books for hell, probably going on ten years now. Maybe one of these days I'll get a place that would allow this style of building... or maybe I'll just do a stealth build of a small earthbag structure. Great building for earthquake and fire prone areas.

I recall a study with... I want to say University of California(?) where they have a machine that essentially simulates an earthquake to test building techniques and structures. Not only did the earthbag monolithic dome exceed expectations, it broke the damn machine.

I get called a lot of things, especially nowadays because of this website, but I'm a bleeding heart hippy environmentalist at heart. I'm all about alternative construction, energy, etc. Would love to see widescale acceptance of stuff like this.

If you ever find yourself in the American Southwest, in New Mexico, check out the earthships and natural buildings in Taos (I believe). About an hour north of Santa Fe. I've visited a couple other places, lesser known, than those including some amazing riff-raff misfit type renegade desert dwellers who build with whatever they can and they live comfortably. People nowadays kill themselves to keep up with the Jones and get themselves in a perpetual state of debt to do it, making them a slave to work until right before they die. A cheap, well built and efficient house like an earthbag home (or strawbale, in climates that support it) can really relieve so much burden off a person financially and allow them to work less for someone else, work more for themselves, and just be happier and healthier.

Yes, the trowel will damage the bag. It would work best dumped into a hole or wheelbarrow.

And worse than exposed skin was no dust mask and not enough mix contact with the twisted top of the bag to keep cement from flying off. But that also could be minimized by careful dumping so it captures dry stuff on its way out.

not uniform, too wet

trowel will likely cut bag

WARNING! 3 hours later SKIN SLOUGHS OFF BODY

If you get wet cement on skin, your skin falls off from horrific burns.

normally its ankle and shin skin, not wrist.

This guy was not overly careful of wrists.

Why do people have skin burn off??? because...

.... no one taught them the danger.

I taught you though.

https://www.poison.org/articles/2016-jun/cement

I love Alfie Aesthetics. Good wildlife and bushcraft videos that are educational, sometimes humorous, and not annoying 'bubba' types talking about politics. Dude knows his stuff.

TL;DW: contractor bag.

In fairness, that is some cheap / weak metal with a very low melting point.

Same video was one with the LEDs... That's interesting pulse charger that could be made to siphon some energy.

Those Lister motors are just wonderful. Almost bought one years back. Sad I didn't.

Wow.

Good little DIY research there.

Definitely useful in the paranoid age of COVID.

I have a need for this since I burn biomass all winter. End up with particulate and smoke.

Issue is the filters to do anything today are rather expensive. I need to find a good import source for decent but low price filters.

goddamned cool!

I used two piers to try and do some of that yesterday and it was ugly

Bad Apple is a pretty good choice to display on this 'screen'.

Richest woman in China (at least use to be).... Ran a recycling business. Specializing in electronics. Exactly how she became wealthy. Removing precious metals from often US exports of electronic waste.

Environmental mess from this as practiced there and in India is horrendous and destroyed watersheds and basic land and water poor locals depend upon.

Impressive interpretation of a coin funnel. His channel has some other useful projects, too.

I watched this a few weeks ago :)

Cool couple busting ass on this.

Build is alright. Small as can be. That's not a real useful build. You'd have to go outside to change your mind.

Good book still. I have it in my library.

No way you can build the stuff he did today for anywhere near $50 or $500. Inflation and monetary theft is the cause. Nonetheless, can build it cheap by mall mentality cul de sucks standards.

Off grid and away from the muckity mucks is looking more like sane path each passing day.

Liquid fuel can be more available than butane refills. He could have also carried fuel in the jar and sparked with the empty lighter, but that's no fun.

This looks cool, but... what's the point? You already had a lighter at the beginning.