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by Annabel V Sclippa
For Immediate Release
Cottonwood, AZ
Block - In a perfect world everyone would plant a garden to know the precious technique of creating the sustainance we depend on. So too might it be ideal as we each knew the craft to build our very own dwellings, in the sustainable way, in the earth but for the Earth, in the kind of resillient and timeless beauty.
Beyond Adobe, a Verde Valley contractor for upwards of 20 years, offers this making use of their new Adobe Brick & Wall Building Workshops, starting Memorial Day weekend, May 22-24.
Not Just the Name, but the History
Beyond Adobe is an adobe block, also known as adobe brick, supplier and green building construction company devoted to earthen-based methods and materials. Their good reputation for earth stewardship, environmental consciousness and a strong belief in sustainable communities, is due to their base in Sedona, and expands within their work through the Southwest.
Company President and Outreach Educator of Workshops, Adam Wayne, earned a degree in Environmental Science at Northern Arizona University, where he also helped start NAU Recycles. He continued this environmentally-based entrepreneurial spirit by employed by, and creating, new ventures from building the Sedona Community Recycling Center to starting and managing a local curbside recycling and waste collection company. In 2004, Mr. Wayne hand-formed Beyond Adobe from your clay soils with the Verde Valley. Today, he resides in Sedona along with his wife, Robin, and will continue to expand Beyond Adobe's outreach in services and classes.
Building Homes Not Houses
Beyond Adobe's goal is to provide affordable, beautiful and sustainable solutions to old and new homes from the world's most energy efficient and durable material: earth; and now expands to providing people who have their greatest tool of most: knowledge, to build their very own.
Beyond Adobe maintains adobe production yards in Camp Verde, Arizona and Deming, New Mexico. They regularly work through the American West utilizing local soils for on-site adobe production, for both urban and rural projects. They love working with individuals and communities alike to build up, preserve and restore earth buildings. Within a 2010 project in Old Town Cottonwood, they had the fantastic pleasure of adding a bathroom accessory for the now expanded Old Town Center for the Arts.
It's All in the Shape
Beyond Adobe can make any size, shape, or form of adobe brick you desire, and is creating custom colored bricks from specified dirt or special shaped adobes to satisfy architectural demands. They'll use either pressed adobe, puddled adobe, or site made, based on the client and circumstances.
Brick - Pressed adobe blocks, commonly known as as compressed adobe bricks or Earth blocks, are created utilizing a combination of modern-day technology and traditional earth building knowledge. Enhanced by utilizing hydraulic presses and machine automation, the bricks emerge almost dry and prepared for building. Pressed adobes provide significant increases in strength, both in compression and modulus of rupture, providing for quicker and much more efficient installation due to their uniformity of configuration. The hydraulic force increases soil density, which raises the bricks' thermal mass ratings. Pressed adobes can be made in most seasons as a result of reduced moisture content.
Hand made, or puddled, adobe bricks begin each time a simple mix of earth and water is mixed with a near mud consistency. The mix will then be laid in forms on a lawn to mold the mud in to the desired brick configuration. The shape is lifted off of the adobe once the mud dries enough to maintain the adobes shape with no form. Following a few days of sunshine, the bricks are set on edge to dry. The drying process may take from one to four weeks to totally cure based on conditions. Puddled adobes result in bricks with a more individual shape, size and appearance; no two bricks are very exactly the same. They offer for a unique and pleasing aesthetic when left exposed in a finished wall.
Site made adobe bricks vary widely. For rural sites and the ones with difficult access, site made adobes often work best for logistics and shipping costs. Beyond Adobe makes bricks from the borderlands of Mexico to the farm country of Montana.
Finished to Fine Perfection
Earth plasters and natural clay plasters bring beautiful, appealing finishes of nature to adobe walls. Earth plasters really are a combination of pure clays and aggregates with coloring agents which come from natural, non-toxic oxides and ochre mineral pigments. The plasters create stunning moods of their own, and a beautiful backdrop for art or wall hangings.
Natural clay plasters are organic and environmentally friendly in both their production and application. Their low embodied energy content makes then dependable when applying in their completed form. They're extremely power efficient that assist control humidity and temperature fluctuations: providing cooler climates in Summer, and warmer in the wintertime. Also, they are non-dusting, mold and fade resistant, and repairable.
Beyond Adobe produces their own true, earth plaster. The plaster could be partially stabilized with lime or Portland cement. This earth plaster makes excellent base coats for adobe and straw bale walls. In addition, it can also function as beautiful final plaster.
Adobe - Beyond Adobe is also an officially certified installer of yank Clay Earth Plasters. Produced in, and using materials from, the usa, American Clay uses natural clays, recycled and reclaimed aggregates and vibrant natural pigments.
Complete
Beyond Adobe provides sub-contract services to contractors and Owner/Builders, so that you will may build your adobe walls per the structure plans. Construction services include footing through the bond beams, plus the installation of bucks and lentils, if neccessary.
Beyond Adobe offers professionally drawn Adobe Home Plans. The home styles are traditional, contemporary, and modern, and vary from 450 to 1650 sq ft. Home plans come fully developed effortlessly necessary elements, and elevations ready that you should break ground. In the fun one-bedroom modern Triangle House or even the Little Square Adobe to two-story Farm Houses, Round Houses, and my way through between, these house plans consider land placement, views, and functionality to the eco-friendly max.
Beyond Adobe's soul mates is Design + Build Projects, where they assist clients from conception to completion; making use of their knowledge in good design, combined with efficient use of resources and self-sufficiency strategies. As adobe brick makers, they take great pride and resolve for maintaining and preserving the indigenous methods and materials of earth building.
DYI
For that true DYI Owner/Builder, or simply those with curiosity for Mud Construction, which is resilient, fire resistent and beautiful, Beyond Adobe has launched their new group of Adobe Brick & Wall Building classes. These Weekend Workshops start with basic brick and wall building on Memorial Day Weekend, May 22-24 through the Verde Valley, bringing the center from the company returning to its roots.
Beyond Adobe supplies a number of workshop opportunities as a green building educational resource, and has taught all age brackets and talent levels. They've held workshops for eager Owner/Builders through the entire Southwest, plus youngsters in Northern Arizona, senior high school teachers in Southern Arizona, as well as the Crow Nation in Montana. For sophistication information, scholarship opportunities, in order to register, please call Workshops Manager, Annabel Sclippa (928) 593-0827, email belle@beyondadobe.com, or visit www.beyondadobe.com.
