I found another great way to build gable and vaulted roofs — with pallets: Pallet Pavilions
The site referenced above shows how pallets can be used for walls and roofs. This is exciting because free pallets are usually quite easy to get in most countries and they’re very strong. Many are made of hardwood [...]
Archive for July, 2009
Pallet Roofs
Posted in Building Styles, Ceilings, Domes, Economics, Introduction, tagged building, corbel, dirt cheap, earthbag, earthbag building, earthbag houses, gable, pallet houses, pallet roofs, pallets, sandbag building, sandbag houses, unique, vault on July 31, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Earthbag Roundhouse Workshop
Posted in Economics, Introduction, tagged earthbag, earthbag home, earthbag house, earthbag office, earthbag workshop, round office, roundhouse, sandbag, sandbag home, sandbag house, Thailand, workshop on July 26, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Date: 7 days, April 19-25, 2010
Cost: $500 includes excellent hotel, shuttle van, breakfasts, dinners, snacks
Location: Sakon Nakhon, Northeast Thailand
Instructor: Owen Geiger
Email: strawhouses [@] yahoo dot com
Roundhouse information:
Round earthbag office, 15’ interior diameter, 18” walls, earthbag foundation
Wood doors and windows, small bathroom, earthbag benches
16 sided wood bond beam, steel compression ring
16 sided roof is framed with [...]
Dirt Cheap Housing Advice
Posted in Building Styles, Domes, Economics, Introduction, tagged dirt cheap, DIY, earth dome, earthbag, earthbag domes, earthbag houses, low cost, sandbag, sandbag dome, sandbag houses on July 25, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Here’s an email from one of our readers (abbreviated for ease of reading).
I just had a few questions about building an earthbag home, and I hope you can get me pointed in the right direction. First off, I’m broke, so these questions pertain to me saving up for my future home. My dream home would [...]
A Sad but Educational Footnote
Posted in Building Styles, Domes, Filling Bags, Forms, Foundations, Plasters on July 23, 2009 | 7 Comments »
In 2005 there was much publicity and delight regarding a lovely earthbag clinic built in a small town in the Philippines. This was a project of Illac Diaz and several organizations there. You can see the finished building below.
Since then it has been privately reported that the building has fallen into disrepair. Some photos accompanying [...]
Low-cost Multipurpose Minibuilding Made With Earthbags
Posted in Arches, Building Styles, Domes, Economics, Emergency Shelter, Filling Bags, Forms, Foundations, Introduction, landscaping, tools, tagged earth dome, earthbag, earthbag building, earthbag construction, earthbag dome, earthbag root cellar, earthbag rootcellar, earthbag shelter, sandbag, sandbag building, sandbag dome, sandbag shelter on July 15, 2009 | 9 Comments »
One of the most practical structures on a small farmstead is a multi-purpose garden structure that can serve as a storage shed or cool pantry above ground, or as a root cellar or storm shelter below ground. You can build this multipurpose structure for about $300 using earthbag construction (bags filled with earth and stacked [...]
Earthbag Rootcellar
Posted in Arches, Building Styles, Economics, Forms, Introduction, tagged earthbag, earthbag building, earthbag rootcellar, root cellar, rootcellar, sandbag, sandbag building, sandbag rootcellar on July 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Here’s a real nice earthbag/ferrocement rootcellar plan from Karl in the Missouri Ozarks. It is 8’ across, has 2’ of soil on top and beautiful stonework in front. Great job Karl!
Karl describes his rootcellar in more detail: The U-shape on the top of the bags is a row of cement beam block that [...]
Eccentric Aesthetics
Posted in Building Styles, Domes, Introduction on July 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
According to an article entitled “Eccentric Aesthetics: DIY Eco-Friendly Earthbag Homes” posted at dornob.com, the phrase “form follows function” has morphed in meaning over time and is, perhaps rightly, open to interpretation. One interesting extension of this idea is that the form of a building can follow the functions of its constituent parts – that [...]
Earthbag Cisterns
Posted in Economics, Introduction, landscaping, tagged cistern, DIY, drinking water, earthbag, earthbag building, earthbag cistern, how to store water, potable, rainwater, roof water, roofwater, roofwater catchment, sandbag, super adobe, superadobe, superadobe cistern, sustainable, water catchment, water storage, water tank on July 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Since water is vital to life, and there is increasing scarcity of clean drinking water in much of the world, it makes sense to store this precious resource and use it wisely. Earthbags in combination with ferrocement offer a number of interesting alternatives for storing water. Three different methods are shown below.
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Dome Building Guide
Posted in Building Styles, Domes, Economics, Insulation, Introduction, climate on July 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As you can imagine, we get quite a few emails from readers asking about earthbag building. Sometimes these questions and ideas are of interest to a larger audience and so we pass them along to you in this blog. (The best questions and comments also end up on Kelly’s Earthbag Building FAQs.)
Chris, one of our [...]
