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HELLO WORLD "NATURAL BUILDING" IS CLUNKY
Ross Brubeck is a builder with the woods edge natural builders collective. He is in the process of finishing his first earthen home. “Natural Building” is a clunky term. Much like “organic” or “sustainable”, it’s drawn from a stablehouse of easy greenwashing terms cheaply deployed next to a green leaf on a plastic package. What part of “nature” is reflected in “natural building” more so than the built environment we are already in? The materials used in natural building processes are less ref...
HELLO WORLD "NATURAL BUILDING" IS CLUNKY
Ross Brubeck is a builder with the woods edge natural builders collective. He is in the process of finishing his first earthen home. “Natural Building” is a clunky term. Much like “organic” or “sustainable”, it’s drawn from a stablehouse of easy greenwashing terms cheaply deployed next to a green leaf on a plastic package. What part of “nature” is reflected in “natural building” more so than the built environment we are already in? The materials used in natural building processes are less ref...
IT WE THE NBC
The Woods Edge Natural Builders Collective is a group of friends based in Durham, North Carolina.We are building living, breathing spaces using materials acquired as locally as possible. We are designers, builders, and artists, animated by the desire to construct buildings and places which embody a more human-scale approach to living, by creating resilient spaces which are intentionally built around human needs. The purpose of every building we construct is to outlive the resources expended i...
IT WE THE NBC
The Woods Edge Natural Builders Collective is a group of friends based in Durham, North Carolina.We are building living, breathing spaces using materials acquired as locally as possible. We are designers, builders, and artists, animated by the desire to construct buildings and places which embody a more human-scale approach to living, by creating resilient spaces which are intentionally built around human needs. The purpose of every building we construct is to outlive the resources expended i...
