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Hand Built Off Grid Tiny House ($200)
Paul Wheaton walked us through his two Wofati earth sheltered houses. They created these with the help of ‘Ants’ and ‘Gappers’ on Wheaton labs in Missoula Montana. To get lumber on this site they have a ‘Voltswagon’ solar powered lumber mill and a backhoe…but most of the labor was unskilled amateurs. To find out more go to https://permies.com/t/33160/labs/wofa…
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Handbuilt small homes and the building codes
This video is about small handbuilt homes and how building codes stand in the way. For the first part of this 2-part documentary on why we need small handbuilt homes please visit: https://youtu.be/dZF6d3gUdd0
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Kyle’s Crazy House: Earthen Plaster on the Gnestle
Dancing Rabbit is the best place to see many examples of natural building first hand. We have over 30 natural buildings in one place built from mostly local, natural, and reclaimed materials.
In this video, and the next few I post, I will be showcasing the buildings of Kyle Yoder, who’s lived at DR for several years and is known for the organic forms of his design. One of the great things about natural building is the freedom it gives builders to think beyond the 90 degree angle. Kyle’s just begun the finish plaster of his own home, the Gnestle, and we’re going to get a peek at his work and a little explanation from the builder himself.
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HOW TO BUILD A MUD (COB) HOUSE CHEAP TO LAST 10,000 YEARS. ENGLAND.
How to build a mud (cob) house cheap to last 10,000 years. England. Please watch this video to the end…It’s amazing how fast and simple it is….You can do it yourself! Listen to the comments from students learning how……So interesting! PLEASE SUBSCRIBE: globalvideopro1
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A virtual tour of my mud home in Turkey. What’s it like to live inside a small earthbag house? And would I do it again?
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Modern-old Japan mud house: smart & bioclimatic on a budget
To bring natural homes into the 21 Century, architect Tono Mirai designed “Future House”: a home that blends earth building and traditional joinery with modern design. Located in Miura, Kanagawa (about an hour and a half south of Tokyo), this fusion home was built for a businessman and his wife and 3 children.
The client wanted a healthy and natural home as an escape from his daily commute to Tokyo, but wanted something modern. Mirai designed a home oriented to the south so that its earthen floors and walls (of traditional Japanese mud plaster) can act as heat sinks for the winter sun. He built vents into the outer walls to naturally control the flow of air.
The extensive living roof also acts as an insulator. Mirai calls it a “very natural way” to insulate, noting that the temperature difference between outside and inside the roof can be more than 10 degrees.
With all the passive solar and natural venting, the home doesn’t need AC or heating (beyond a small wood stove) and it delivers a natural air quality and “peacefulness” requested by the client.
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Art of living in a Dordogne tiny mud home with living roof
In a small forest in France’s Dordogne, self-taught carpenter Menthé built his home with a living roof and mud walls, In a small forest in France’s Dordogne, self-taught carpenter Menthé built his home with a living roof and mud walls, plus hand-carved wood from the surrounding forest shaped according to ideas from 16th century French architect Philibert de l’Orme. The result is a charming and very cozy home that fits perfectly into the woodland.
For more on Menthé’s community (and hand-crafted bathroom, jacuzzi tub, etc) watch “French carpenters craft whimsical off-grid tiny house hamlet”: http://faircompanies.com/videos/view/…
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Norwegian abandoned remote turf house becomes cabin getaway
Students from the University of Trondheim have embraced the Norwegian cabin tradition and have built/rehabbed a network of 23 small cabins available to students interested in overnighting in isolated nature.
The group- NTNUI (NTNU sportsklubb)- began in the 1940’s when a former Trondheim student was killed in WWII. His parents donated money and helped build the first cabin named Nicokoia after their son Nicolay.
Today, the student group has built or renovated nearly two dozen “koiene” (huts). All are off-grid, many are only accessible by hiking, or cross-country skiing, several hours. They are all equipped with a working kitchen (a propane or kerosene stove) though the toilet is an outhouse and a local stream serves for drinking water and bathing.
We visited the group’s newest acquisition, Vekvessætra, a nearly 200-year-old farmhouse which they leased from the local authorities and renovated in “the great Norwegian tradition of ‘dugnads’” (volunteer work). Eighteen students spent about two weeks rehabbing the old log cabin, replacing floors, windows, insulation and even installing a new sod roof.
Sivert Eliassen and Siri Hårklau hosted us in what was once a summer farmhouse for local farmers (the area is still grazed by local sheep).
Photo credit: Daniel Zwick, Egil A. Behrens and other group members.
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Asturian hórreo: old granary on pillars as tiny summer cabin
In Northern Spain, small farmers have stored their crops in “hórreos”- a granary raised on pillars – since the 13th century. Mainly found in regions like Asturias and Galicia, this construction is now part of the architectural heritage and is protected by the government. Many homeowners have restored these elevated structures for storage, parking (underneath) or even as tiny cabins.
In the 1980s, Pedro’s father took two hórreos and joined them to create a small summer cabin for the family. The resulting structure is called a “panera” since hórreos have 4 pillars (or “pegollos” in Asturian) and paneras have 6 pillars.
Pedro gave us a tour of the 33-square-meter space which he rents out on Airbnb. https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/11240827 It’s surprisingly spacious with two bedrooms (one with a full bed and the other with a bunkbed), a bathroom (complete with shower) and a kitchen (which includes an escañu: an Asturian bench that with an attached table that can be raised or lowered for different uses).
Pedro’s home is unique, even to the area: there are thousands of hórreos in Asturias and Galicia and likely less than a few hundred are now used for housing, but given the delicate state of the architecture, some are trying to change this. “Walk and Horreo” crowdfunded enough money to refurbish their first hórreo in Galicia as a tiny shelter, using the slogan “preserve hórreos by sleeping in them” http://www.walkandhorreo.com/
Although hórreos are protected by the government, many homeowners find it too expensive to maintain or refurbish them and with the winter snows, every year more collapse. Those behind “Walk and Horreo” have also created an app for walkers along the Camino de Santiago to find hórreos-turned-shelters for overnight stays http://www.verkami.com/projects/13232…
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Tiny huts to enjoy the basics in Swedish spartan rural lodge
For more than 400 years, charcoaling had been traditional industry in the area surrounding Skinnskatteberg, Sweden. Locals burnt charcoal for the iron industry and lived in rustic huts to stay close to the “coaling” process.
To bring back this local tradition (which had died out in the middle of the 20th century), in 1996 the local municipality built 12 charcoal huts from mud and grass: each with 2 slim beds and a fire-burning stove.
Today, Andreas Ahlse, owner of the Kolarbyn eco-lodge, rents out the 12 huts to guests who want to experience a back-to-basics lifestyle. Here you learn to chop your own wood, start a fire with fire steel, collect drinking water and bathe in the lake. “I think people are getting more and more interested in the old history and want to come out here and test how it was.”
There’s no electricity or running water. The huts have just beds and a fireplace and candles. There’s a composting toilet, though you’re encouraged to pee in the woods as long as you avoid the blueberries. There’s no bath house or shower, but there is a large lake with a floating sauna.
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