A version of this story ran in the June 2014 issue. Kent Rabon, stocky and square jawed, pushed open the heavy wooden doors and stepped out of the tiny white chapel into the West Texas sun. He ...

What is papercrete? Learn how to make this building material out of paper pulp, cement, and sand. Get tips on papercrete roofing and waterpoofing papercrete. Sure, we’d heard the rumors about paper ...

Borrowing a Chinese technique used centuries ago to construct boats and observatory domes, Valley experimental designer and builder Barry Fuller is using paper to create homes. The recipe for the ...

What do you get when you mix paper, cardboard, sand and Portland cement? The answer is papercrete, which is essentially a type of industrial-strength paper mache. First developed in 1928, the natural ...

This article was originally posted in Instructables and is reposted with permission from Michael Warren. Papercrete is just what it sounds like: concrete made with paper. I tell people to think of it ...

Papercrete vessels, like hypertufa pots, are waterproof, but they are lighter in weight. Before use, the newly made container needs to dry out of the weather. In winter, it may take as long as two ...