Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Natural Building

If you're into astounding data, unbelievable photos, and unparalleled natural building, check out this unarguably interesting list of animal architecture.




At first, I was thinking to include the phrase "real natural building" somewhere in here, as a knock to what mankind builds today. But that would really discount a lot of what humans have built in the past, and build today in other cultures (not to mention what I intend to build). Mud is still the #1 building material in the world. Take a sneak peak at this hogan:



But I find animal structures to be just mind-blowing works of form, size, and community effort.

1 comment:

Janet said...

Our backyard squirrels have taken your message to heart. I saw one carting away some nice warm building materials: straw from your cob oven!