Author(s): Barbara Kern, Ken Kern
Publisher: Owner Builder Publications
ISBN: 0910225001
Order From: Amazon.com
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The Earth Sheltered Owner Built Home
Book teaches the earth sheltered method, siting, draining, wondow and door, waterproofing, landscaping, light and heat, and features photos on the Forestierre ( Clovis CA) underground house built by a French family decades ago with living trees in the grotto entrance. Discusses types of clay and uses, wattle & daub designs, features the Jane and Otis Mullan hoouse.
Also covers the Kern studio with its composite roof, working with clay, curvelinear design, and slip forms walls. Kern’s unique caast cement and rebar ( ferrocement ) hooped ribs and sawdust insulation have not been duplicated. Also some historical underground type shelters are coverd, with some photos.
265 pages, photos and drawings, index- $27.00 , xerographic.
