Papercrete

The gallery below contains pictures from a class work day making papercrete for the CCAT natural wall construction.

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  It takes about 5 minutes of mixing with a power drill with a paint mixing paddle for wet shredded paper to pulp like this before adding cement
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  Blending paper shreds with Portland cement
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  This is the form we used to make the bricks used in the wall. When the bricks dry, they shrink, making the form easy to lift off
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  Here I am showing the class how to lay paper-crete bricks on the wall...
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  ...And again.
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  Natural building projects require a lot of community and group effort to make progress!
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  The finished paper-crete wall has divots that we made with our fingers in it to give the natural plasters something to stick into
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  The wall after a long hard days worth of work and almost ready to receive natural plasters
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  With the left over paper-crete from the day we made a large planter bowl. There are many uses for extra paper-crete. Use your imagination!

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