Rural Studio/Samuel Mockbee
August 28, 2006
An amazing array of projects utilizing local and recycled material to create inexpensive and creative houses, community centers, and even churches in rural Alabama. Very innovative approaches to construction methods, design, and techniques…
Yancey Tire Chapel, Alabama. To form the chapel’s walls, the students filled 1,000 donated old tires with soil, fortified them with reinforcing bars, wrapped them with wire mesh, and coated them with stucco.
Yancey Tire Chapel
Rural Studio student housing, sidewalls constructed of recycled cardboard
LINKS:
- Rural Studio
- article: “Champion of Hale County, Alabama: Rural Studio and Samuel Mockbee,” by Andrea Oppenheimer Dean, published in Land Views: Online Journal of Landscape, Art, and Design
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rachael | January 22, 2007 at 8:56 pm
i love ikea!