Adobe construction with manure binder (Mexico)

Past student project on traditional adobe in Mexico — straw plus manure (the manure repels flies, but the house smells for a few years).

People have been living in concrete block houses — that was a project a student did once. She was from Mexico, and she did adobe. Adobe — I didn't know this, but they tend to use manure for the adobe in many cases because it keeps the flies away. So it's just straw and manure, and you build your house out of that. One of the problems is it does smell for a few years.

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