Tiny wattle-and-daub shed from local dirt in San Francisco
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- The tiny wattle-and-daub hut on Ellis Street is likely the only earth-built shelter in downtown San Francisco. Even more impressive, the materials were scavenged from the city itself.
"The alley had no access to earth since it was all paved," explains the shed's builder Julie Glanville, "so we looked on craigslist and got earth coming from renovations in people's houses... and by chance, the Senator Hotel was being remodeled and I heard about a hole through the basement so I was about to get a couple buckets of local, Tenderloin, very sandy soil".
The vertical part of the wattle- the woven part of the walls- was made from bamboo harvested from Golden Gate Park "with the permission of a park gardener". The horizontal weave was made from tule reeds harvested from Lake Merced "with the permission of a natural areas gardener".
The timbers are all reclaimed wood. Even the red clay used for aesthetic purposes was donated from a local clay studio. Of course, the plants on the living roof are all natives.
Currently, the shed is serving partly to store tools for the Tenderloin National Forest (the tiny urban park where the hut is located) and partly as an art gallery for local artists.
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Actually this is me. I was so surprised to find it that I signed in as my partner.
I did a DOUBLE Wattle and daub wall hut with clay slip hay insulation - all locally harvested with hand tools. Took all summer. haha. Scythe. Shovel. Feet. Still up after two winters. I posted photos as an upload. thanks
I love the concept but bummed that it's pretty much being used as a shed.
Ok...I like the concept of going back to old-school building practices and getting in touch with nature and using salvaged materials. What I DON'T get is....why??? She's not living in it or using it for anything in particular. It just seems like a waste of time and energy if you aren't going to have it serve a purpose. Just my two cents....
Went to all that trouble to create an earthen building with local soil then they put up drywall??? wtf
Thank you for all the videos! :) They are great!
Thanks for your support lotus! Thanks to Kirsten for her continued documentation of projects like these!
Hay is this the Tenderloin nag garden shed? I worked on that! As well as helping the Portuguese tile artisan making those Miwok pattern trails…great vid. Don’t remember you there but there was a young Mayan guy I worked with just for a day
Love the planted roof!
keep up the good work kirsten!
Ok, so this is me! Just finding the video now. It really needs to be seen along with other Tenderloin National Forest videos for context. It is a community collaboration project I volunteered to steward. The planted roof, not really my choice. I was asked if I could make a cob building on a sidewalk in a very urrb
mmm sorry, i don't get it.. why is this for then?
ok great video but AWESOME truck
This is exactly one of the points of the project
It is a public alley leased by the city, leased for a very nominal annual amount to a community arts organization. Darryl explains this in Kirsten's other video about the place called "urban forest erupts in SF's edgy Tenderloin.
borax and casein - fascinating.
can someone tell me what kind of truck that is please
People got together to create and innovate in an area that was unexpected! The criticism is illogical and ill-founded, and frankly stupid. It is because it is....why do we create? Why must there be a reason and plan for everything because it makes no sense to YOU...it's not built for you, thank goodness, it's built for and by those that appreciate it... I too appreciate it. Much love.
Hey great video! Was thinking of making my own and was wondering the ratios of which you used to make your plaster and protective coating.
I like the idea of strawberries growing on the roof but I think your idea of a cob building would have been much more artistic and practical.
Not a fan of this one. It's not worth the many years it took her to build this 6x4 closet.
Who owns the land it's built upon?
Well TL soil probably contained poops
If you know the TL, you know the earth is inaccessible unless there is construction, hence clean fill from the dump, Craig's-list and the construction hole in the basement of the Senator Hotel next door. And well, it is not so much as super sandy loam if not just plain sand.
This is really not a how-to... It is a spontaneous documentation of one aspect of a larger urban community green art project. On its own it is a bit out of context. I can see how a cob or natural building enthusiast would be puzzled or disappointed. Put it in context by viewing: RUclips videos re: Tenderloin National Forest or Fair Companies' other little video: Urban forest erupts... or the one shown as a part of an exhibition called Against All Odds in Athens Greece, 2011.
You left out the poop......You're supposed to add POOP! (not human preferably)
it took you years? that thing shouldn't take more than a week... smh
As a working full time parent in a city I was grateful for the time and all the opportunities to involve people over that time.
In relation to the comments, rammed-earth buildings have lasted thousands of years, not this. This will not. If I go to SF ten years from now, this will likely be gone. Earth buildings survive because of the climate. The drier the climate, the better. Also, you created a roof that will almost assuredly leak into your mud and straw walls. . It's cheap, sure, but sustainable is as much about longevity as economy, especially when the owner maintains the structure.
It is still here... a lot of wattle and daub the world over still stands. It is a valid part of the raw earth traditions. That said I am a big fan of rammed earth!