A video of a unique house recently went viral on TikTok. What makes this house so special is the eco-friendly, ancient material used to construct the building: a mixture of sand, clay, and straw.

Baking in the warmth of California’s Cumaya Valley stand three small structures made of an ancient building material: cob. The material is a mixture of clay-heavy soil, straw, sand and water that — ...

As the demand for sustainable and energy-efficient construction continues to rise, more builders are turning to cob—a natural building material made from clay, sand, straw, and water.

Engineering professor Mark Aschheim launched students in key research that underpins new cob building code. Engineering professor launched students in key research that underpins new cob building code ...

As part of our Building with Cob series, we've put together an overview of cob and other traditional earthen building materials used around the world, including adobe and rammed earth. Building with ...

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Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Houses are built of hundreds of materials, natural and artificial. Mud must surely be the most basic of them all. It ...