Subject: Re: Earthships house ???? -Reply

From: [email-masked] (Steen H Hviid)
Date: 25 May 1995 17:50:59 GMT

Hello,
Gaetan Mailloux <[email-masked]>

Tell us about your Earthship! Have you started on it yet? What are you
doing to make it withstand the rain up there, since I understand that
adobe is not good in rainy climates.

Thanks
-- 
Steen Hansen (Hviid)    E-mail: [email-masked]
Computer Specialist,    The Ohio State University
There is something fundamentally wrong in treating the earth as if it was 
a business in liquidation.  -- Herman Daly, quoted in "Earth in the Balance"

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From: Gaetan Mailloux <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 25 May 1995 02:16:53 GMT

Robert Sanders ([email-masked]) writes:
>>And also the pros and the cons of that kind of house ???
>
>   My concern about these is that they become rather indestructable.  The
> concept of taking tires, filling them with dirt (adobe mud) and adding an
> exterior coating of cement (and the variations thereof) creates a house
> the may not be dismatled using anything less than dynamite.

Yes, but for a poor man like me, a tire house are just what I can afford,
and it will be in the North of Ontario (Canada).

>
>   Houses should not always last more than 100 yrs (or other arbitary
> length of time).  Their components should be capable of being recycled
> into other structures.
>
>    Or the structure should be considered as one that will become a
> historic one that can have multiple lives.
>
>>Can we do comparisons versus the underground house ???
>
>   Sure, these are pretty much underground in that they are bearmed into
> the side of a hill.
>
>
>>It's seem to me, with the underground house, a good choice for wealth
>>of our ecosystem. At least better than a brick house :)
>
>   The type of house really needs to be selected for the area in which it is
> built.  An example, out here in the Southwest, adobe makes much more
> sense than a frame, log, or underground house.  (And yes we've got
> them all, including some huge log homes that are so out of place sitting on
> the mesa.)

Well it gone be in a quite cold area, North of Ontario are quite cold.

>
>    Indeed here, in New Mexico, building a house without passive solar
> features is just plain dumb.  OF course both here and over in Arizona I've
> seen some fine Cape Cod style houses just waiting for that nor'easter to
> blow in...
>
>   Bob ([email-masked])
>
> Earthships house ???? -Reply

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