Earthbag Roundhouse
This house isn’t exactly tiny at 855 square feet but it’s an excellent of an efficient and low cost way of enclosing living space. Earthbag Roundhouse
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Wilderness Earthbag Cabin
Owen Geiger recently posted this small cabin design on his Earthbag House Plans website. It’s only 283 square feet and features a bathroom, kitchen, living space, and a sleeping loft. This may also be one of the designs to appear in Owen’s future coming house plans book. Wilderness Earthbag Cabin
Earthbag Projects in Haiti
Two earthbag home projects are underway in Haiti and are being blogged about at blog.konbitshelter.org and howsitgoinginhaiti.blogspot.com. Read more about these Earthbag Projects in Haiti on the Earthbag Building Blog.
University of Maryland students head to Haiti
Some students from the University of Maryland will be spending a week in Haiti demonstrating how to build these sturdy earthbag shelters. Earthbag Shelter Training
Earthbag Roundhouse Workshop in Thailand
The folks at the Earthbag Building Blog are hosting a workshop in Sakon Nakhon, Thailand from April 19-25, 2010. If a bit of world travel and earthbag house training sounds interesting to you definitely learn more about this workshop. Pictured here is one of their recently completed projects in Mexico. Earthbag Roundhouse Workshop in Thailand
Earthbag & Pallet Emergency Shelter
Dr. Owen Geiger, the Director of the Geiger Research Institute of Sustainable Building, posted one of my design concepts on his Earthbag Building Blog. I had whipped this design up for a 1 Hour Design Challenge at Core77, in exactly 1-hour using Google SketchUp. Thanks for all the earthbag inspiration Owen! Earthbag & Pallet Emergency Shelter
1 Hour Design Challenge
Core77 ran a 1-hour design competition looking for designers to spend literally one hour on an emergency shelter concept. I’m not sure if what I came up with is technically a ‘pop-up shelter’ as the competition asks for but it was fun to put this earthbag and pallet hybrid concept together in an hour. 1 …