Here’s an interesting presentation by the same folks who designed and built the earthship greenhouse in Montreal that I featured in yesterday’s blog post. The speaker makes lots of good, thought provoking points. It sounds like they’ve moved beyond earthship greenhouses and are now working on modular sustainable housing for cities. Their new designs are faster to build than conventional houses and very energy efficient, however the cost works out about the same.
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Modified Arc House
“An eco-self-build in Australia – there are bound to be hoops to jump through!
Charming Tiny House Built by Young Woman
Nice design and excellent video with loads of practical space saving tips.
Grand Designs Australia – Building a Straw Bale Home
Oh no, the video got deleted. Here’s an article about the project in The Australian.
More information at Grand Designs. Please let me know if you find the video online. It’s called the Piper Creek Strawbale House.
“Peter Maddison, Australia’s favourite television architect, returns tonight with another in the fifth season of his popular, entertaining and informative series, based on the award-winning British program created by Kevin McCloud.
Earthbag Home in Belize
“Designed by the owners, a doctor and nurse from Cambridge, Ontario, Canada. Built by local Belizean builder, Jorge Rosales, this organic home emanates a sense of place at the junction of Parrot’s Cove and Forest Hill Drive in our Belize Eco Village. A sublime design.”
Online Natural Building Encyclopedia
Here are two more endlessly scrolling sites with thousands of natural building images. They might be the largest image databases of natural houses in the world. Wonderful sites. Some of the images are absolutely amazing.