Mud houses have been constructed in various, mostly dry, parts of the world for centuries, if not millennia. Visually, they blend with the Earth more seamlessly than virtually any other type of structure. And they can be surprisingly cool inside, since the walls, which cool down at night, take quite a while to heat up again during the day.
Architect Nader Khalili’s dome houses (actually, rather more like beehives) are constructed using what he calls “Superadobe,” using sandbags and barbed wire. They have passed California’s tough earthquake codes, and he fervently wants to teach low-income people to build them themselves, especially in earthquake-prone areas like his home country of Iran.
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About Me
- Tom Owens
- I'm interested in nature, technology, and the human interface between the two. I see anthropocentrism (often combined with ethnocentrism and/or excessive religious fervor) as probably the most damaging human mindset, at least environmentally-speaking. A great goal of mine is to inspire a love of nature in people. I believe we will all benefit if everyone can create a bond with other organisms and feel the connectedness of all life on our planet. We all have to realize that humans are not separate from the rest of nature.
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