Kerry Bushcraft School, Ireland: Building a Debris Hut

During our Basic Bushcraft course we demonstrate how to design and build a small hut made from plant materials and a few broken sticks. This takes about an hour of class time with ten people building one hut.
In reality, it would take a minimum of three hours for one person to build a one person hut.
When I was living in the Pacific Northwest outside of Seattle, I designed a built a debris hut large enough for a small fist sized fire and high enough to stand up in. It took me two months to build this. It was not a task that took all day-every day but over the two months I did put in fifty or so hours of work on this structure.
I moved into my new place in July and stayed in this debris hut for six months. Seattle is in a temperate rain forest. It was cold, wet and windy. But inside I kept warm and bone dry. I endured hail storms, snow fall, thunder storms and a hefty wind or two.
My debris hut was able to withstand the rough weather because it was built on the same concept of the single person debris hut: a strong inner shell made from sticks and logs along with a tight weave of branches followed by a metre of debris.

Here are the steps in building your own debris hut.