What I learned from building an unconventional roofless earthen house in the tropics

It’s humbling to reconsider something you invested years of your life into building. When we built our roofless earthen home in Tamarindo, Costa Rica, I was trying to do something that, at the time, I hadn’t seen anyone else do quite this way. I wanted to explore how far earthen architecture could be pushed—particularly whether it was […]

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La Villa de Arcilla NOW ready to sell lots to ecologically-minded folks interested in earth building!

Calling all Earthlings… Anyone interested in buying a parcel to build an earthen home in an earthen neighborhood in Costa Rica with other earth builders? WHAT IS LA VILLA DE ARCILLA & WHERE IS IT LOCATED? La Villa De Arcilla (“The Village of Clay”) is a 13-hectare (32-acre) earthen eco-community located on fertile farmland with a seasonal […]

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