Earth Friendly Homes and More - Designs of the future

[VaughnB]

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Here is an album of unique architectural homes and buildings that can inspire the imagination. I will hope to link identity information on each at a later date.

Feel free to post your contributions to this thread, sites that stimulate and stretch the design frontier like the Garbage Warrior to the Masdar City Institute of Science and Technology in Abu Dhabi.

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.2240764988011.2097902.1514646498&type=1&l=b2ccb9bb95

[Cidersomerset]

Thanks Vaughn B some lovely 'quirky' designs a refreshing change from the 'box's' we tend to live in here....

I found my house on a thread I put up on the 'hobbit' thread....

Build a house for aprox $5,000

http://www.ciracar.com/img/weird/build_a_house_for_less_than_$5000/build_a_house_for_less_than_$500010.jpg

http://www.ciracar.com/img/weird/build_a_house_for_less_than_$5000/build_a_house_for_less_than_$500012.jpg

http://ciracar.com/build-a-house-for-less-than-5000

[Ria]

Thank-you for the thread I would love to get together and make a village with a group of people.
I am good on design and making stuff, heavy fiscal thing I am challenged with.
The top pic, an inside pic of this would be great.

[Dawn]

I have a couple of friends who have created a tiny homestead by building a series of cob buildings similar to this one. Because each building in the complex is tiny, and has no plumbing, the County building inspectors have left them alone. The mayor of the nearby town has even been there for classes in building.

They have one building for a kitchen, and have piped in cold water from their ram pump filled water storage tank. They have another as a bedroom with a sitting area and a sleeping loft above. The chickens have their own small cob house too. The composting toilet has it's own cobb structure and is very comfortable, fresh smelling and airy. By building a series of small disconnected structures they have been allowed to build this way. With a larger structure, there would be building codes and things would suddenly be expensive and not possible.

The only thing I would change if I lived there would be to pave the paths between structures with stone or brick so that they are not muddy in the winter. If the paths were covered that would also be nice, and the covers could be used as grape arbors. That way walking to and fro in the various dwellings that make up the house would be more comfy.

I would love to create a community and have a small nest egg which should buy me some good land. This is a possibility for me, however I'm no longer young... though I am still able bodied. Some young blood to help us create and also build a place for themselves would be very welcome.

[Ria]

Dawn, sounds lovely.
Cidersomerset, looks good too.

[VaughnB]

Thank-you for the thread I would love to get together and make a village with a group of people.
I am good on design and making stuff, heavy fiscal thing I am challenged with.
The top pic, an inside pic of this would be great.
ya i was sayin to my partner the same thing about this house with all those glass bottles, lovely colors. even the door can u believe it?

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Thanks Vaughn B some lovely 'quirky' designs a refreshing change from the 'box's' we tend to live in here....

I found my house on a thread I put up on the 'hobbit' thread....

Build a house for aprox $5,000

http://www.ciracar.com/img/weird/build_a_house_for_less_than_$5000/build_a_house_for_less_than_$500010.jpg

http://www.ciracar.com/img/weird/build_a_house_for_less_than_$5000/build_a_house_for_less_than_$500012.jpg

http://ciracar.com/build-a-house-for-less-than-5000
ya i'd love to go to new zealand and actually see where they created the hobbit village.

i've a friend whose tryin to create an intentional community in Utah based upon the 7 chakras, loves this kinda stuff, they've already drafted designs.

[Mark]

Awesome! I have 2 very similar albums also on FB:

Sustainable Earth Living I (https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.112366225481558.17879.100001245420563&type=1)

Sustainable Earth Living II (https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.163268600391320.48154.100001245420563&type=1)

Anybody dropping by, just send me a friend request! I'm accepting all comers! LOL

[WhiteFeather]

Jacque Fresco and The Venus Project have some cool ideas:

http://thevenusproject.com/images/slideshows/homepage/01.jpg

http://thevenusproject.com/images/slideshows/homepage/17.jpg

http://thevenusproject.com/images/slideshows/homepage/15.jpg

http://thevenusproject.com/images/slideshows/homepage/01.jpg

[Ron Mauer Sr]

Many of these designs are very cute but not all are Earth friendly.

An earth friendly house would be small, earth sheltered with vertical south facing glass (in North America) that can be shielded from a summer sun and exposed to the winter sun.

I wonder how the wood is kept from rotting in the $5000 hobbit house. This house would need to be a labor of love because it would be extremely labor intensive to build.

This 621 sq ft design is working for me.
http://ronmauer.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/sassy-lilac-plan3-150x150.jpg

http://ronmauer.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/28apr091-150x150.jpg

[VaughnB]

Jacque Fresco and The Venus Project have some cool ideas:

http://thevenusproject.com/images/slideshows/homepage/01.jpg

http://thevenusproject.com/images/slideshows/homepage/17.jpg

http://thevenusproject.com/images/slideshows/homepage/15.jpg

http://thevenusproject.com/images/slideshows/homepage/01.jpg
I love Jacques designs, wanted to talk to him but never really connected and can't make it to Florida. I like the concepts, reusability, scale, ease of construction, automation, efficiency and durability.

[VaughnB]

Many of these designs are very cute but not all are Earth friendly.

An earth friendly house would be small, earth sheltered with vertical south facing glass (in North America) that can be shielded from a summer sun and exposed to the winter sun.

I wonder how the wood is kept from rotting in the $5000 hobbit house. This house would need to be a labor of love because it would be extremely labor intensive to build.

This 621 sq ft design is working for me.
http://ronmauer.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/sassy-lilac-plan3-150x150.jpg

http://ronmauer.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/28apr091-150x150.jpg
nice design, super efficient looks like and uv some garden space as well. Ya, I love wood but there are considerations for longevity, interior is o.k., it's just the exteriors exposure, weather, insects etc.

[Arrowwind]

to me, ultimatley an earth friendly house would be one that will last for a very long long long long time made of materials that are recyclable and that endure for a long time... requring less repair, that would hold up under a wide variety of climate conditions.
The houses presented in the photos I could not and would not live in... where is the private space? where is the laundry room? where is the food storage? where is the grow room? Is the insulation sufficient? where is the passive solar component? where is the light in that earth one?

[mojo]

I love rammed earth or straw bale, with timber frames...

The Rammed Earth House Interview with Award Winning Master Builder Don Parkes HD
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