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Neighbours took care of us, now they will take care of the house. <3

The Gambia, Ghana town

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Brufut Heights, Ghana town, The Gambia

Nursery for Kids, project built by students from Faculty of Architecture Ljubljana and Streha za vse (https://www.instagram.com/strehazavse/,  https://www.facebook.com/strehazavse/). 

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Winter Protection: How to Add Stucco to Compressed Earth Bricks [video]

Graham Robertson (Open Source Ecology volunteer):

My name's Graham Robertson. I've been here for about five months, working on construction and getting the infrastructure set up. So what I've been doing, as opposed to trying to fill the wall, like all the cracks and holes in the wall with stucco, which is a cement... it's like a 10 percent cement and lime mixture, I'm going in and filling it with sand clay first, because you can build a lot thicker layers with sand clay. Read the full article