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Building with earth - Gernot MINKE (1)

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Mii amo Spa at Sedona, Arizona,

USA

The building is a three-storeyed post-andbeam

structure that is planked with diagonal

buttressing sheathing. The outer walls

bear an exterior lime plastering on lightweight

wood wool construction slabs,

behind which lies a 12-cm-thick cellulose

insulation. The insides of the exterior walls

consist of 20-cm-thick rammed lightweight

woodchip shaving loam coated with loam

plastering. The weather-exposed gable is

provided with rear-ventilated larch wood

sheathing. The inner walls are filled in with

adobes. The brick roof and the balcony projects

outward so that the southern rooms

are shadowed in summer, yet admit sunlight

in wintertime.

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