wath earthships on youtube here or official website of earthship biotecture here
Snail is experimental building for 2 people trying to be as small as possible, yet suitable for inhabitants. As simple as possible, but mostly efficient and cheap. It has two main sacret spiral rammed earth walls. It should be easily enlarged in future for new family occupier. It looks like many other Earthhips with typically sloped South faced glazing for optimal solar gain - no heating or cooling bills becouse of huge termal mass where is excess of summer energy stored.
Prevalent wind goes right in through entry door cooling greenhouse corridor and leave the building in large window on the other end. On the front side are 3 openable windows for further intake of fresh cooler air in hot days. Openable skylights further facilitate cooling draught by facilitation escaping warm air out.
Snail catches rainwater and use it for all inhabitants needs - no bills for water. It actually catches too much, so it will reserve watering for community garden and food forest which is right behind Eartship - thus extra watering it by rainfall due to earthship burial. Snail has large inside garden suplying some food throughout the year with over-flow to huge community greenhouses in front of the building. There is also sewage from septic tank recycled.
Our Earthship is completely out of grid - It will use alternative source of energy - no power bills. We will try to achive strange mixed visage: typically futuristic earthship looking combined with unusually familiar look of peasant baroque which is quite typical for our area...
more on my launching blog http://marosh.wordpress.com/ you will have to learn Czech tho :)
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