Does anyone want help with building something?

Hi Permies community!

Does anyone want help with building?  I'm an architect and I will be taking a sabbatical cross-country road trip from late July through October, passing through Wyoming, Montana, Oregon, California, New Mexico, and Texas. I'm looking for opportunities to get some hands on experience with an earthen building project (cob, straw bale, light straw clay, adobe, or anything in between).

I have a background in architecture and some conventional construction experience, so I'm comfortable reading drawings, understanding structure, and picking up new techniques quickly. That said, I'm still pretty early in my career and I've never worked with cob or natural building materials before. I can contribute: a few full days of work, a decent amount of foundational knowledge, and second set of hands with plenty of gusto and can do spirit.

If you're building or planning to build this summer and could use an extra volunteer, I'd love to hear from you. Happy to discuss timing, location, and what would be most useful. I'm flexible on route and can detour for the right opportunity.

Thanks for reading! This community has already been incredibly enlightening. Y'all rock!

E, I hope you have sucess with this trip.
I suggestion would be to include you name so people dont need to ask.
How will you be travelling, will you have tools or enthusism?

The more you post here the more people will get to know you E!  I think this is really cool and I think you'll have some fun adventures and help some folks out along the way.

Hahahaha yesssss another architect joining the natural building path!
This is the way. Now we just need some engineers!

Thank you E. Southam, that's a very kind offer. I do not know how practical it is to have an architect on site permanently. As a builder myself, i love a sound architectural drawing at the start of a project and then if practicalities are in the way or realities hits in building the details i need support. If i need a change or if i have to think about durability of the building. How do you see that yourself? Will you be helping to build physically or will you  stay and advice the people or do you move on to design another project and be available if problems occur?

A very kind offer, sir.  If only your travels could include the sweltering Georgia piedmont......

I'm not to the point of building but I have a ground-up earthship design (my own instead of buying plans) that I would love your thoughts on, despite it being only on paper.  Perhaps critiquing plans isn't really what you were looking for, though.

When I have them done I plan to post them here but I'm still working on details and could use your thoughts before I try to share them with the forum as a whole.