Building with earth - Gernot MINKE (1)

14.76
Earthen storage wall in winter
gardens
14.76 Heat storage wall
in a winter garden
14.77 Laying loaves
of loam
14.77
In order to enhance the thermal storage
and the humidity balancing effect of a winter
garden with a floor area of 20 m 2 , forming
part of a residence at Kassel, Germany,
a storage wall made of wet plastic loam
loaves was built (14.76 and 14.77).
The loaves, measuring 20 x 14 cm, were
formed by hand and stacked without mortar
or filled joints, thereby effectively doubling
the surface of the loam that is active
in thermal storage and humidity absorption
and desorbtion. The wall surface above
the glazed opening, 14.76, was covered
with thrown loam balls, as described in
chapter 11, p. 95.
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