Earthbag Sustainable House Design and Village Model Update
Our sustainable house designs and village model focusing on open source project-launch blueprinting earthbag home construction for under $1,500 continue to evolve. We’ve had to rethink the layout due to the development and 20′ diameter growth of the Tropical Atrium as well as conversations with the county that have led to a much more eco-friendly vermiculture bathroom design and communal shower setup. In accordance with our four-phase global change strategy, our goal with this village model is to open source project-launch blueprint this the Earthbag Village (Pod 1) as a demonstration of over 60 different artistic iterations of maximally affordable earthbag sustainable house designs. We will showcase this as a beautiful, durable, easy to build, and completely ecologically friendly and sustainable home model that can be constructed for around $1000 per structure from materials that can be locally sourced or easily and affordably shipped anywhere in the world for a total cost of less than $1,500 per structure.
RELATED PAGES
7 VILLAGE MODELS OVERVIEW ● TROPICAL ATRIUM ● EARTHBAG VILLAGE DETAILS
SUSTAINABLE HOUSE DESIGN OPEN SOURCE GOALS
As we continue open source project-launch blueprinting the earthbag village, build it, and problem solve and evolve it for One Community (and with others around the world) we will use this page as the portal to complete details for duplication including the additional portals for the vermiculture bathroom designs, eco showers, and Tropical Atrium, as well as the open source and free-shared specifics related to this village model including:
● Architectural plans for all components
● Detailed materials list for all components
● Detailed equipment and tools needs list for all components
● Cost analysis and best sources for materials and equipment
● How to build, what to watch out for, how to adapt structure
● How to work with local government if permitting is needed
● On-going maintenance and upkeep details per our on-going experience
● Specifics of everything you can grow in the Tropical Atrium and what kinds of yields you can expect
● Complete details on how to build your own Earth Bag Village and how many hours it should take
● How to make your build easier than ours and how to solve any problems we encountered in our build
● Archive and database of others building similar structures including their experiences, adaptations, etc.
● List of everyone who helped us design and build this so they can be contacted to help others change it
The list above will evolve into links for each bullet point to individual pages including all the open source project-launch blueprinting details people need to duplicate every aspect of this component of One Community in part or in whole.
EARTHBAG VILLAGE LAYOUT UPDATE
Here is the first new design layout by architect Douglas Simms Stenhouse (Architect and Water Color Artist) taking into account the new communal bathroom and showers – showers he is designing right now. This is not how it’s going to look as we realized a significant number of additional changes are needed, but it is a start on the new layout.
Earthbag Village Layout Evolution #4: Click to Enlarge
EVOLUTION OF THE EARTHBAG VILLAGE
Doug delivered the above drawing today and we discussed it for an hour and came up with the following evolutions:
- Improve flow for people
- Reduce materials and digging
- Account for the planned water usage and flow
- Account for the resident versus visitor population and flow
- Have adequate access to the 3 entryways of the vermiculture bathroom design
- Create and optimize 3-unit housing groups and clarify location of the 2 unit groups that remain
Here’s what the notes look like for the next iteration Doug is working on now:
Next Generation Traffic Flow and Layout – Click to Visit the Pod 1 Details Page
Here are the traffic flow and emergency vehicle notes and planning:
Visitor and Emergency Vehicle Flow and Layout – Click to Visit the Pod 1 Details Page
Here is the greywater flow and planning from the bathrooms and communal showers:
Water Flow and Layout – Click to Visit the Pod 1 Details Page
