Just Add Water 5

The visualisation of the moisture data is progressing. Now in our last week of getting this video together.

Just Add Water 4

My latest scan for ‘Just Add Water’. A combination of four different scans. There is a quiet frozen quality to these 3D models – a still life in point cloud […]

Just Add Water 3

Flat out on this video for Plymouth University’s Sustainable Earth Institute. Plenty of hiccups along the way, but exciting to try new processes. This is storyboard version II. I’m working […]

Just add water #2

Working on visualisations of moisture data with Nat. Here are some early experiments.

Just add water

These are the ingredients for making cob, or more to the point the updated version of cob, cobbauge, that they are developing at Plymouth University. I’ve been down there the […]

Ichor

The word ‘petrichor’ refers to the wonderful scent given off by dry earth when rain falls upon it. It comes from the Greek: ‘petra’ for rock, and ‘ichor’, which was […]

Tamp ‘Em Up Solid

It’s a new word to me: tamp. It’s when you pack something down firmly, avoiding too much pressure that it becomes squashed: in the world of earth building that would […]

Splat!

I spent yesterday in the CobBauge workshop at Plymouth Uni, finding out more about this material. The day was spent fluctuating between two poles: one, earthed, that what we are […]

E is for ’embodied’

We are such a visual culture. It seems that new buildings are often designed to look good in a photo: a quick glance on Instagram reveals feed after feed of […]

CobBauge

So where to start tackling the climate emergency? How about over a cup of tea? Well, not quite, but the cup did come up in my first meeting as Creative […]