Kule Loklo's current roundhouse was built in the early 1990's. It's a semi-subterranean structure, built traditionally with an earth-covered roof. Over the years, rains and a grove of eucaplytpus trees that prevented the winter sun from drying the earth over the roof led to the roof prematurely decaying, and needing replacement.

Volunteers spent most of 2004 and early 2005 preparing the materials for the roundhouse reconstruction. Finally in June 2005 a Marin Conservation Corps crew provided much of the labor of dismantling the old roof and putting the new one in place, including two days of working in unseasonal June downpours. Finally, work was completed over the summer, and earth covered the new roof.

These photographs show the construction work, from the stripping of bark from the douglas fir poles that would form the new roof to the reconstruction of the new roof.