In today's tutorial, we learned how to make a rammed earth wall! Rammed earth is composed of clay, sand, gravel, and a small portion of cement to act as a stabilizer. Ray shows us some of his completed projects in Tuscon, and then we dive into the demo!
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In this natural building tour, we visit Crestone, Colorado to take a look at Paul Shippee's rammed earth strawbale home. By utilizing passive and active solar technology, Paul's home and hot water system is able to be heating by the sun year-round. Rammed earth is a durable and efficient building material with a high thermal mass which makes it great for heat storage. On the other hand, strawbale is highly insulative so when this heat rises the second story of Paul's home is able to retain the temperature!
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Timeline:
0:00 - Intro
0:28 - Background
1:48 - The Building Process
2:10 - Active and Passive Solar
3:32 - Greenhouse Entrance
4:15 - The Kitchen
4:40 - Rammed Earth Walls
5:26 - The Living Room
6:47 - The Bathroom
7:07 - Semi-Spiral Staircase
7:31 - The Main Bedroom
10:10 - The Roof Deck
10:47 - Reflection
11:36 - Outro
In this tour we visit Earthship Biotecture to tour Kirsten's off-grid Earthship. Earthships are made using a combination of natural, waste, and repurposed materials. These unique homes are completely self-sufficient by creating their own energy using solar power, harvesting and filtering their own water, having the ability to grow food in their interior greenhouses, and best of all they need no air conditioning. Kirsten has lived in Earthships for over 22 years!
For more information about Eco Build Lab you can visit their website at ecobuildlab.com.
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