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Architectural use of Honeycomb Calcite in adobe walls - What's your idea?

Adobe out-building -  Arivaca, Arizona

Earthen building designed and constructed by Barton Santello and his company the 'Santello Development Corporation'

Below: Illumination from inside adobe building - Note the stained-glass look

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Below left: Stone stem wall of artist's studio currently under construction in Arivaca, Arizona. Cob (straw & clay) walls rising from shown stem wall (below right). 

Photos below show the first of three Honeycomb Calcite slabs that will be placed in wall of this building. For details on the development of this project, see: http://cobobstudio.blogspot.com