{"id":34352,"key":"Papercrete","title":"Papercrete","latest":{"id":1206932,"timestamp":"2025-11-27T21:09:28Z"},"content_model":"wikitext","license":{"url":"https://www.appropedia.org/Appropedia:Copyrights","title":"CC-BY-SA-4.0"},"source":"[[File:Drying bricks.jpg|thumb|Papercrete blocks drying.]]\n\n== Gallery ==\n\nThe gallery below contains pictures from a class work day making papercrete for the [[CCAT natural wall construction]].\n\n<gallery>\nImage:Mixing_papercrete_CCAT.jpg| 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\nImage:Paper Crete Mixing.jpg|Blending paper shreds with Portland cement\nImage:Paper-crete_Brick_Form.jpg|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\nImage:Laying Papercrete Brick 1.jpg|Here I am showing the class how to lay paper-crete bricks on the wall...\nImage:Laying Papercrete Brick 2.jpg|...And again.\nImage:Work Day on the Wall.jpg|Natural building projects require a lot of community and group effort to make progress!\nImage:Finished_CCAT_Test_Wall.jpg| The finished paper-crete wall has divots that we made with our fingers in it to give the natural plasters something to stick into\nImage:Unfinished_CCAT_test_wall.jpg|The wall after a long hard days worth of work and almost ready to receive natural plasters\nImage:CCAT_Paper-crete_LAndscape_Bowl.jpg|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!\n</gallery>\n\n== See also ==\n\n* [[World Shelters Make it Complete with Papercrete]]\n* [[CCAT greenshed west wall]]\n* [[Papercrete vs. StrawBale]]\n* Mixing and Spraying Papercrete- [http://www.mortarsprayer.com/papercrete/]\n\n{{Page data\n| license = CC-BY-SA-3.0\n| description = Explore the innovative world of papercrete, a sustainable building material blending paper and cement, with insights, techniques, and community projects featured on Appropedia.\n}}\n\n[[Category:Alternative building]]"}