Book Contents
Our acclaimed 150-page book, Building with Papercrete and Paper Adobe, lavishly illustrated with 300 photographs, is by far the most complete description of papercrete and paper adobe available anywhere.
| Title | Page |
| FRONT COVER: Eric Patterson with the 600-square-foot papercrete addition he built onto his adobe house. |
Front |
| Introduction | 5 |
| How to Build a House of of Fibrous Cement for $1000 (or less) | 7 |
| A Visit with Eric Patterson, Paper House Pioneer | 22 |
| A Prototype Paper Block Factory | 28 |
| How to Build a Papercrete Mixer | 32 |
| A Heat Transfer Experiment with Papercrete | 39 |
| Up in Smoke | 40 |
| Some Perspectives on Fibrous Cement/Papercrete | 41 |
| Bilding with Paper Bales by Mary Hardin | 43 |
| The World's Oldest Papercrete Dome (That we Know of) | 51 |
| Papercrete Q&A | 52 |
| Recent Papercrete Innovations | 53 |
| Papercrete Perspectives, Part 2 | 55 |
| A Colorado Papercrete Tour | 58 |
| An Innovative Papercrete Dome Design by James Moon | 66 |
| An Electric Barrel Mixer for Papercrete by Kelly Hart | 71 |
| A Papercrete Workshop at Windtree Ranch | 74 |
| Earth Quarterly Builds a Paper Office | 76 |
| Ultra Low-Cost Paper Adobe Construction at City of the Sun | 80 |
| Silver City Update | 84 |
| Crestone Update | 85 |
| A Papercrete Guest Cottage at Windtree Ranch | 86 |
| Letters | 88 |
| Conclusion | 93 |
| Reference Guide | 95 |
| Resources | 96 |
| A Simple Sawdust/Cordwood Shelter | 97 |
| Letters | 101 |
| An Innovative "Semi-Sustainable" Roof Design | 102 |
| "Organic Rebar" | 104 |
| Papercrete in Wisconsin | 105 |
| Papercrete Perspectives, Part 3 | 108 |
| Combustion Testing on Papercrete Mixes | 112 |
| More Letters | 114 |
| State-of-the-Art Papercrete House in Colorado | 117 |
| Papercrete Perspectives, Part 4 | 120 |
| An Engineer Looks at Papercrete | 121 |
| Large Papercrete House in Arizona | 125 |
| More Letters | 131 |
| Papercrete Addition in Cortez, Colorado | 133 |
| Papercrete Building in Chamizal, New Mexico | 137 |
| Stucco Adventures | 139 |
| Papercrete Earthship on Vancouver Island | 140 |
| Twin Dome Papercrete House in Colorado | 142 |
| More Letters | 145 |
| Papercrete Formulas | 148 |
| Afterword | 149 |
| BACK COVER: Sean Sands with the 300-square-foot guest cottage he built for $225. Half of this structure is underground |
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