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8 Crazy Ways to Build a House : From Beer Cans to Cardboard
improvementweb.com — A look at the alternative housing materials which are being used to build enegy & cost efficient modern homes from everyday trash; such as beer cans, tires, cardboard, glass & mud.
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- ipodwheels, on 10/10/2007, -1/+10I will Huff and I will Puff and I will Blooooooow your house Down! :)
- kensavage, on 10/10/2007, -4/+5oh yea? well I'll drink that house down.
- bs3arch, on 10/10/2007, -4/+2Impressive to see how advanced the homeless are in earth friendly construction.
- balibones, on 10/10/2007, -3/+1Shipping containers, old train cars, straw bale, rammed earth, cast earth, cob, tires... The list goes on and on. I'd like to experiment with all of them but there's only so much time and money!
- davidmihm, on 10/10/2007, -2/+0This story calls to mind one of my favorite architects, Sam Mockbee, and his Rural Studio down at Auburn: http://www.cadc.auburn.edu/soa/rural-studio/mockbee.htm. Mockbee did amazing things with cheap materials and scraps. The problem with getting these widespread is that building codes in most American cities (and I'd assume in most developed countries) don't allow for this kind of experimentation.
- TheTeenVote, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4It's not even homepage and the site can barely load the images, i found a mirror http://pileofphotos.com/view/307/Weird-houses-and-buildings if anyone else is having problems.
- suxmonkey, on 10/10/2007, -2/+0Rammed Earth is and should be all the rage. (1) local materials (2) sustainable materials (3) high labor, low economic cost - do it yourself!
- hiPpymIck, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1video about earthships.. tyres rammed earth cans bottles energy efficent(~10min)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-985238716443547063
- hiPpymIck, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1video about earthships.. tyres rammed earth cans bottles energy efficent(~10min)
- Infantrydude, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Yea! i house I can afford
- AriaStar, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Out in a Nevada ghost town called Rhiolite (sp?) there is a house from a hundred years ago made from glass beer bottles. I found that town by accident and had so much fun poking around, but that old house was the kicker to the town. In the middle of the desert, lumber was expensive, and so the beer-bottle house cost less to build, the bottles work well for insulation, and wha'd'ya know, it's still standing whereas every other building is either collapsing or gone. There's a docent who lives out there in a trailer to watch over the town and to give info, so don't even think about trying to move into it. But it's still neat to see.
- fisj139, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3"The house is shapes in a rounded form"
"Other types of home is a home made from straw bales and adobe cob"
lol language - Typhuse, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3How to build a server that stays up?
- Spaceboy492, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1My dad used to live across the street from the beer can house. He'd visit occasionally, and we always drive by it when we go to my grandparents' house. It's a cool place.
- SSCrow, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1How long would it take a fire to destroy a house made out of Cardboard?
- Computer_Kid, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1well if you fireproof the cardboard, it could be safe for a temperately structure
- yagotmeseruchi, on 10/10/2007, -1/+0Who
- hlavoe, on 10/10/2007, -1/+0nice and ecologic stuff
- shablog, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Now which can withstand a hurricane?
- johnn11238, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Umm...Stephen Lawrence is not the guy who built the rubber house. He's the murder victim that the prize that the house won is named after. Nice gaff. Oh, and this webpage is a piece of *****. Buried.
- fratboybrian, on 10/10/2007, -1/+0Do something nice for someone.
Send me a birthday card please :)
Brian
PO BOX 8533
Albany, NY. 12208
Thanks - atdakore, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0What annoyed me about this article is the lack of references and gallery of photos.
Way to wreck an otherwise informative essay.
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