WHO
Robin Hood Community Garden – Cob oven
THE BRIEF
An area of the garden was cleared of brambles to create a social space to encourage more users and create a safe cooking space for local gardeners and residents.
Participants learned how to:
• Make foundations using recycled crushed concrete found onsite.
• Make clay mortars and build a brick plinth.
• Build an arch using engineering bricks
• Identify different bricks and their uses in construction
• Make insulating layers using recycled materials such as sawdust
• Make cob
• Build an oven
• Make clay based renders
• Fire and cook in a cob oven