ECO Construction
Building structures from recycled, natural, or biodegradble material as a sustainble alternative to unefficient, expensive and poluting structurs.
The Mud Hut.
This mud room made by hands and feet of volunteers that came to the farm in Turkey in 2013. It has many great qualities! It balance tempreture day and night with breathing thermal mass walls, balancing humidity and great acustic.
Planing, desiging, and managing the manufacture of 1200 adobe bricks, with unskilled volunteer man power, we used only local material for the bricks and the roof. Doors and window are from recycled material we found from another construction site on the farm
This room was supposed to be for grains, now operating as a VIP meeting room
Rocket oven mass heater
These babies are incredible!!
this brilient oven has two great ecological concepts.
First one, due to its unique circulation of air and extream heat, it burns the wood twice and compelitly, and so it dosnt produce almost any smoke and very little CO. this cause the 'smoke' to be very light, and so it can go horizontaly for about 12 meters!! This allows bering the chiminy in a cob bench, absorving all the heat that is normally geting wasted very fast through the roof.
There are a few shapes and sizes, you can design them preety much as you like, just keep in mind that the bigger the thermal mass is, the longer the heat will stay around.
If you are looking for a cheap ecological way to heat your house, or a very cool kitchen, let me know and we can plan some thing together.
It can even be integrated with a water system to heat your floor and\or shower!
Dome dome dome.
The glorious geodesic dome!
i love domes, it makes me feel like a child in a second, climbing all around, recognizing and listening to the acoustic in the center of it, or trying to hear a whisper from the far end like its right next to me. Its shape, the aesthetic, its complexity, its simplicity, its strange, it is the strongest structure (relative to amount of material used) you can find.
The strurcture is cheap, the cover is tricky, but well planned dome cover will provide you a very healthy shelter.
these domes are hand made from bamboo or local cane and plastic agriculture pipes, or metal,
soon, a geodesic dome green house!!
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Compost\Dry Toilet
This is a must in any house with some land, but possible to install in a building.
Either low tech (a bit Stinky) solution, or a city scale, normative looking dry toilets that each building creating endless amounts of compost, saving endless amount of water.
Did you know- that each person that use a water flushed toilets about 5 times a day is basically spending between 15,000-20,000 liters of DRINKING TAP WATER A YEAR!!
If you want to start using one, just make sure its properly installed, a compost toilet do not need to smell, they do not need to have flies around, they can be clean and aesthetic, and they can smell from lavender and sage, with an aroma of wood saw dust
That's Why Mud Work
Earth is Strong, flexible, healthy, and most important, a natural material.
The qualities of mud are incredible, the organic shape and feel that it has, is allowing anyone who wants, forming their imagination into a furniture, a sculpture or even a home.
it balance the temperature and humidity as a thermal mass, and its great fun to work with too. when building with mud, all you need is one person that knows what they are doing, and a few friends to join hands, feet and backs to make the job. that's why one of the best ways to build a nice pizza oven, a bench or even a house, is to create a workshop for mud building invite all your neighbor and friends, and bring a teacher :) to the site to conduct the building
Stone Work
Stones are natures cement. Incredibly strong, but still organic and some time flexible to work with.
You can see the stone sign, stone wall and the foundations for the bio-pond from the 'afula' project or stone terrace walls from Portugal, every stone reacts completely different then the other.
And if you stop for a second and think about it, every stone can tell an incredible historic, or pre-historic story,
ask your local geologist.