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title: "Check out this house made almost entirely out of stacked compressed…"
date: 2019-12-01
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# Check out this house made almost entirely out of stacked compressed…

*December 1, 2019 · Facebook*

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Check out this house made almost entirely out of stacked compressed cork bricks:\
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No mortar, no glue. The bricks can be unstacked and moved somewhere else.\
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In the case of the cork house, they have to CNC mill each brick due to the fact that they have to heat/compress the cork to form the bricks.\
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However, it seems like it should be possible to make a mold for EPIC bricks that would allow a DIYer to make stacked house:\
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If you added a raceway for threaded rod/wire rope, as in this garden box:\
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\...you could put the wall under tension in the vertical direction, which should make it very resistant to earthquakes.
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