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About
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Interactive
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Photo
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Mission
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People |
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Contact |
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Welcome to Maitreya EcoVillage. If your browser
allows, you can click on the map above to visit Maitreya. You may also visit
by clicking on the images below. Please use the navigation bar on the left
to return to the Interactive Site Plan. While all the stops during your
tour include pictures, there are a number of ways to navigate to them. |
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Inward facing portion of the
cob wall |
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The Straw Bale home
at Maitreya EcoVillage is available as a community gathering space to all
in the community. If you are interested in reserving the space, please contact
Daniel at 541-968-9332. |
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The triplex was an attempt to combine
the idealism of natural building with the cost effectiveness of conventional
construction. The wood is 95% FSC certified or recycled. The first floor
is an earthen floor. All the windows, exterior doors and cabinets were built
on site. |
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Rainwater from many buildings goes
to a meandering rainwater swale where it will then soak back into the ground
instead of going to the street where it would mix with petroleum residues
and become a toxic waste problem. The rainwater swale is a constructed ecosystem
creating habitat for various species once more common to this location. |
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The major environmental
benefit to cob construction is that it has the potential to be a truly sustainable
building material. If one harvests the earth, sand, straw and mixes them
into cob using human and/or animal labor, one can then build the cob into
a house that will, upon reaching the end of its lifespan, simply dissolve
back into the earth in a truly cyclical and genuinely sustainable process.
True sustainability can be credibly claimed of little else in the world
of green building. |
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The Building is a prototype attempt
to combine the curvilinear beauty of cob with the insulation value and the
ability to get a building permit of straw bale. |
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