The wonders of an earthen home…Ramiro Rangles is featured as well as Javier Carrera from the Seed Network in Tumbaco who has given a permaculture course right here in Cotacachi.
Ramiro Rangles is our Architect and the first Architect featured in the video. We started planning our home here in 2009 – we were going to build rammed earth. Last year we saw another method of building called ‘bajareque’ (sounds like baraque) and chose that as our method to build. It is basically bamboo and dirt the walls are 8 inches thick (or 20 cm).
YouTube link on how the process works for the kind of home we are building – its all in spanish but you will understand it.