Altai Natural Building and Alternative Energy
Natural building and sustainable design around Altai:
- Beautiful wooden church in Ust-Koksa
- Bele guesthouse with birchbark ceiling
- Bele restroom
- Bele visitor center
- Cooking area on left, heating on the right
- Detail of traditional ail in Karakol Valley
- Downtown Barnaul old log building
- Felt door insulation
- Haybarn in Bele
- Interior of yurt
- Interior detail in Verkhny Uimon
- Kosh Agachs lack of precipitation permits flat roofs
- More local techniques
- Old picture in Verkhy Uimon museum
- Old school well in V. Uimon
- Sod roofing to keep livestock warm
- Techniques seen around Altai
- Traditional methods in Chemal
- Traditional oven
- Two variations on ails in Karakol Valley
- Verkhny Uimon Old Believers village note the insulating bases
- Verkhny Uimon building detail
- Yurt door detail
- Yurtok cabins with biotoilets
- Yurts on Kosh Agach main square
2009 Natural building intensive:
- Filling bags for earthen walls
- Plastering
- Preparing walls
- Relaxing in the evening
- Studying the drawing
Bobrovka strawbale project:
- Bobrovka plaster workshop
- Bobrovka foundation
- Bobrovka leveling
- Bobrovka oven
- Bobrovka winter 2009
- Cobbing cracks in Bobrovka
- Complex structure for a strawbale at Bobrovka
- Mixing plaster in Bobrovka
- Much interest in Chemal
- Pre-roof in Bobrovka
- Rear view of Bobrovka strawbale 2010
- Sight lines at Bobrovka
- Some of the Bobrokva team
- Strategizing at Bobrovka
- Volunteer at Bobrovka
Chemal strawbale project:
- Much interest in Chemal