Sunday, 7 September 2008

Adobe wall with hidden secrets

This weekend saw the return of our eager volunteer Victor. If you think back to May this year, you may remember the episodes titled "Blue paint scrub" and "Mud bricks". In the latter, Victor helped us to make the mould for the mud bricks.

Now he was able to complete his work, by actually laying the bricks into their final location:



As you can see on this picture, a small section is laid out with solid mud bricks, to provide thermal mass in the centre of the room.

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Behind the bricks, a small cavity exists, and not wanting to simply waste the space, we decided to put it to a long term use: We use it as a time capsule. That is, we place things from our time into the cavity, so that future generations may get an idea of what it was like in our days. To accomplish this goal, we purchased a selection of contemporary Japanese magazines and newspapers.

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After quick handy work by Victor, the capsule was sealed until ...

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