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The Green Solution to the Global Housing Problem

Mar 28, '09 10:03 PM
for everyone

Cal-Earth’s Stunningly Beautiful SuperAdobe 3 Bedroom, 2 Bath, 2 Car Garage Earth House located in Hesperia CA.

SuperAdobe construction is impervious to dry rot, fire, earth quakes, wind storm or hail damage and is extremely cost effective to construct.

The Green Solution to the Global Housing Problem has Arrived.

MERC will be using this earth friendly technology to construct its Yucatan Wisdom Center* where we will be training local Mayan and Mexican youth so they'll be better able to provide solutions in their own country by solving their own housing needs. This is part of our Humanistic Economic Corporate model going in Action providing solutions involving worker/owner participation.

The following pictures taken Jan 09 at Cal-Earth provide many details of this revolutionary approach to construction. Many of the incomplete structures are kept that way as a teaching tool at this unusual California school site

Cal-Earth - a Major Solution Technology in Action

*update: the construction of a 2,100 SF Earth One structure will be launched in early spring of 2012 on MERC's Living Research Center. This is located at Walker's Folly Farm, Eastern Shore, Virginia. Not the Yucatan as originally planed. Life unfolds as it will despite our best plans.

3 Bedroom, 2 bath, 2 car gararge

Beautiful SuperAdobe House

Dream Adobeland Awaits

Spaciousness

Architect Iliona Outram

Entryway Vault

Dinning Room

Cal-Earth - Foyer

Looking into Kitchen

52 f inside - 77 f ourside

Additional Light

Interesting molded shower

Bathroom

Tiled Shower

Hall Bathroom

Entering Bedroom

Bedroom two

Built in Nitches

Bedroom - Bath

Bedroom Closet

gas & plumbing

main electrial panel

Office in 2nd Gararge

Office in 2nd gararge

Testing Electrical Gararge Door

Gararge

1 of 2 Grarages

Student's Learning Projects

Exotic Entry Door to SuperAdobe Land

Beautiful ! Real Wood Displayed

Sand Bags with Barbed Wire

Small Eco-Dome

Arch Window

Homeless Deluxe-Two Person Shelter 80 ft.²

Holey Dome-Mineshaft Entry

Fish Pond

Walls Surrounding the Arch

Small Round Window

Raised Entry Way

gravity and the strength..

Koala Pouch

Reptile Exterior Finish

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sand bags, mortor

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Ancient Middle Eastern Arch

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Builder Jason Medrano

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The Eternal Arch

Iliona being descriptive

Jason & Iliona

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Spot of Beauty

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Paint it Black..

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Natural Ventilation

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Aum

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True Solar Oven

The Arch

Always on watch

Next: Dr. G Underwater in Florida

23 Comments

mobyblue wrote on Aug 13, '09

Absolutely wonderul! The way we are suposed to live. A home built for the soul. What a marvel!~~~~~~~~viki

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ipacmerc wrote on Aug 13, '09

mobyblue said

Absolutely wonderul! The way we are suposed to live. A home built for the soul. What a marvel!~~~~~~~~viki

Glad you got to see them.
Make sure you come visit and stay a while with us in the Yucatan.
Lots of creative spiritual energy swirling around to bath the soul within.

mysticsifu wrote on Sep 17, '09

A contact of mine, foems, talks about the development of this Yukatan Wisdom Centre and it great to see it coming through.

ipacmerc wrote on Jul 3, '11

http://realestate.yahoo.com/promo/the-half-there-house.html

The Half-There House

This can be accomplished with SANDBAGS too...

ipacmerc wrote on Jul 3, '11

Mysticsifu.... Thanks for your blessings and observations. The machine builds, gathering momentum to make this a reality... Stay tuned my friend..

ipacmerc wrote on Jul 22, '11

http://sandbaghouse.com/Infos_files/Sandbag%20House%202.pdf

The Sandbag House
High Living Comfort,
Economical and Ecological
by Stefan Kracht

ipacmerc wrote on Jul 22, '11

http://earthbagbuilding.wordpress.com/

Earthbag Building Blog
Sharing information and promoting earthbag building

ipacmerc wrote on Jul 22, '11

http://www.motherearthnews.com/Do-It-Yourself/Earthbag-Building-Garden-Shed.aspx

Low-Cost Multipurpose Minibuilding Made With Earthbags

Use this unique building technique to make a studio, garden shed, chicken coop or root/storm cellar — no building permit required!

ipacmerc wrote on Jul 22, '11

http://sandbaghouseinjbay.wordpress.com/

We invite to a practical workshop that is designed to give you knowledge and skills to help you build your own natural home.

The workshop will be led by Jill Hogan, founder of McGregor Alternative Centre who has over 14 years of experience in natural building. Jill Hogan is highly sought as an expert on all aspects of natural homes and has an incredible amount of knowledge and first hand experience.

ipacmerc wrote on Jul 31, '11

http://www.earthbagbuilding.com/projects/sandbagshelters.htm

The Sandbag Shelters of Nader Khalili
from www.pushpullbar.com

I will show you what to me, is an exellent way to made architecture, how we can make, with few and natural resources, great space design, and at the same time, solve differents social problems, one of the principal motives and preocupations of modern architecture.

ipacmerc wrote on Aug 15, '11

http://lexicorient.com/algeria/eloued.htm

the Arch in all it's glory - EL-OUED, Pearl of Sahara

ipacmerc wrote on Aug 15, '11

http://www.motherearthnews.com/hands-on-and-how-to/disaster-resistant-earthbag-housing.aspx

Sand bags (or earthbags) also have been used for many years in flood control. Millions of bags are placed around communities every year to protect against flooding. Average citizens often pitch in and work together with no training to construct barrier walls to prevent flooding.

ipacmerc wrote on Aug 15, '11

http://www.earthbagstructures.com/

Earthbag Solutions for Disaster-Prone Regions
This website provides immediate, free information for those seeking better ways to build shelter in disaster-prone areas, especially Haiti. Advice and plans from experienced earthbag builders and designers focus on small emergency, transitional and permanent buildings.

ipacmerc wrote on Aug 15, '11

http://www.earthbagbuilding.com/testing.htm

Earthbag Testing Research Summary

Engineering tests of earthbag structures have begun, mostly at the university level. The understanding of earthbag construction is improving as engineers are laying the groundwork for understanding the physics of these flexible walls with multiple contact planes between varying size rounded bags and soil fill. They have already established that soil in bags can have greater strength than soil alone, and that barbed wire and plaster layers contribute significantly to preventing wall failure.

ipacmerc wrote on Aug 15, '11

http://www.greenhomebuilding.com/financial.htm

Financing Alternative Homes

ipacmerc wrote on Aug 15, '11

http://www.reedconstructiondata.com/building-codes/

Building Code Reference Library

ipacmerc wrote on Aug 21, '11

http://www.monolithic.com/topics/monolithic-dome-shapes

Beautiful Dome Home pictured here

ipacmerc wrote on Aug 23, '11

A Delightful New Product: The Monolithic Gazebo

http://www.monolithic.com/stories/a-delightful-new-product-the-monolithic-gazebo

Residential Floor Plans

http://shop.monolithic.com/pages/residential-floor-plans

ipacmerc wrote on Aug 27, '11, edited on Aug 28, '11

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SUN FROST - The world’s most elegant refrigerators are also the world’s most energy efficient!
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Sun-Mar - Composting Toilets
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GREYWATER

http://www.greywater.com/

... http://www.letsgogreen.com/greywater-recycling.html

12 ROCKET STOVE Mass Heaters - Efficient Wood Heat

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ipacmerc wrote on Aug 27, '11

The Pegasus Children's Project in Nepal

http://www.earthbagbuilding.com/projects/pegasus.htm

Super Adobe homes are strong, and can be wind and waterproof. Designed to be resistant against extreme environments, they have been earthquake tested to 6.5 on the Richter scale, complying with the most rigorous earthquake building codes. The flexibility of earth as a raw material allows the easy construction of curved surfaces which work with, rather than against seismic forces.

ipacmerc wrote on Aug 27, '11

FOOD PRODUCTION - HYDROPONICS

http://www.econeighbors.org/econeighbors/Econeighbors_Science_Barge.html

Modern farming feeds billions, but is the world’s largest consumer of both land and water, the primary source of water pollution, and accounts for 15% of global greenhouse gas emissions.1

More than half the world’s population now lives in cities, and “the average vegetable eaten has traveled several thousand miles just to get on the plate.” 2

The Science Barge grows food in the city with no carbon emissions, no net water consumption, and no waste stream. Asked how much food could be grown this way, NY Sunworks responded: Studies suggest there could be enough rooftop space in New York City to grow all of our fresh vegetables.

ipacmerc wrote on Aug 28, '11

House of Stone & Light

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1tXmA8OiKQ&feature=fvwp&NR=1

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