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Another Inexpensive Alternate Housing System In Use Today

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Cal Earth Is Promoting This Bagged Earth Super Adobe House Building System Around The World

Cal-Earth wants to cultivate a world wherein we can all build our own eco-friendly earth homes so that no man goes without a safe shelter.

What do you think about these sustainable structures?

This Is A quick way to get a basic structure up, ready for waterproofing and claddings

Cal-Earth’s mission is to teach the public how to build dome-shaped earth homes, dubbed superadobes, and whole ecologically sound communities, with local resources, from earth to sandbags to barbed wire. These homes are designed to meet stringent standards for not just safety (even the strict earthquake codes in California) and comfort but also energy efficiency, and – not to forget – beauty, as evidenced in these images here.

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Their superadobe technology approach, which garnered the coveted Aga Khan Award for architecture, draws from founder Nader Khalili’s “vision of an architecture based on the natural elements of earth, water, air, and fire, and their unity at the service of humanity.” The Iranian took his inspiration from ancient earth building techniques in the Middle East. Online and at their educational and research institute in Hesperia, California, Cal-Earth (founded in 1991) teaches an international crew of interested parties through workshops and other programs, all with an eye towards sustainability and minimal environmental impact.

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Read more: http://dornob.com/superadobes-cal-earth/#ixzz3o1PgW14k

Images are from the original article


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