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The octagon insulation is made up of sections of light straw clay and bottle walls. Both required a multi-step process. For the light straw clay, we sifted clay harvested on the land, mixed it with water to make a clay slip, then tossed it with local straw and packed it into the walls. We tried stomping at first, then pushed it in with our hands, then started just pushing the edges of each section down with sticks to keep the centerless packed. For every two feet we went up we put in a piece of wire to give it support. For the bottle walls, we cut four inches off the bottom of wine bottles and then taped two pieces together to make an 8-inch long section to put into the 5.5-inch thick walls. [insert rest of bottle The taped-together bottles were packed into the wall process] Progress Photos:with cobb between them.