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CABIN, HOME, OR COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS
Architecture can say a lot about a community. If you need a building, but do not want to add another
skid building or trailer house in the natural world of Big Bend, here are a few alternative building ideas.
| Terlingua Springs Market |
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| Stuccoed concrete block and wood structure |
Pat Walker redesigned a building made of concrete block into a beautiful southwest design, and stuccoed the exterior
with an attractive desert color. Currently she is adding a partition to the east side using conventional
wood structure, plastering and painting it to match the main building, creating a very attractive
southwest style commercial building that not only offers interesting architecture to our community, it is inviting to
visit. Her health food store and coffe house, the Terlingua Springs Market is on 170.
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| Eve's Garden by Kate D. Thayer & Clyde T. Curry |
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| Pppercrete block contstruction, Marathon |
Papercrete makes an attractive building material because of its lightness in weight, therefore making the building
progress quicker. Once stuccoed, it has the appearance of an adobe building, and is excellent for the extreme
desert temperatures.
Click here for Eve's Garden, more photos and info.
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| Marbert Moore building |
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| Marbert Moore's "PERFORM WALL" at Terlingua |
Marbert Moore has built this one room cabin with Perform Wall, which is recycled plastic combined with cement,
a porous light weight, quick building block.
Email Marbert Moore, click on name.
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| Patricia Kerns Vaulted Ceiling |
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| Adobe block |
| Contrabando Movie Set , Big Bend Ranch State Park |
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| Adobe block Building |
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| Thomas Greenwood Architect |
Thomas Greenwood designed this small one room corrugated siding building which is nongalvanized to allow the metal to
rust to a rich earth tone over time. It is the Alpine Library's "Re-Reads Bookstore, located in Alpine.
Email Thomas Greenwood
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| Strawbale home and courtyard wall |
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| on hwy 170, Terlingua |
This home on Farm Rd 170 in Terlingua is a beautiful example of straw bale construction for both the house and the courtyard
wall.
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| Stabilized adobe block |
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| Adboe in progress at Terlingua gallery |
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