For those who were trying their darndest to figure out the size, like I was, I Google-mapped it and then measured it. It's approximately 3-4 acres of land. I just purchased 3.5 acres in AZ and will begin building a small village in the New Year so this was super inspirational with scale in mind.
i have the knowledge and skills to build a compact nuclear reactor that will power between 600-1500 households. If you want to build more vertical (5-8 story-house) it can be done within your landzone
@@duckduck9487 you can sell the leftover electricity and make some money with it + you can be sure that you dont need to worry about it for the at least the next 40 years.
Great project! Excellent example of what's possible when a group of sensible people empower themselves to create a living environment that actually meets the combined needs of humans and nature. There should be millions of these communities all over Europe.
So funny to find this video, 10 years ago during my environmental science studies me and my classmates helped building for a while. Back then we were building the tyre walls and we helped with roofing. It was a lot of fun
I enjoyed the video, however there were several times where the music overpowered the speakers voice making it very hard to understand, even with subtitles.
I could understand what he was saying but because I have a medical condition which makes sensory processing challenging I found the addition of music so disturbing I couldn’t follow this to the end.
I dream to one day live in a community like this, where people share skills and resources. To me, this is how humans used to live, if you go back far enough in time. Modern society has taken away a lot of these human natures, here in the UK, we keep ourselves to ourselves in our own houses, and don't tend to cooperate with our neighbours, its sad to me, and I wish I could live like these in this ecovillage one day
Yeah, but then you have to live with these people & there's always a few who are lazy & take advantage. Unless people stay on top of it, it'll soon be full of addicts & other useless soycialists.
Bullocks! The United Kingdom is the reason why we no longer live like the communities we used to back then. You called this type of living backward and uncivilized and everything in between! 400 years later now people are only starting to re-realize that communal living is more sustainable. Gtfoh
Awesome video. Thank u very much for sharing. Very Nice and enjoyable narration, and very happy to perceive the great philosophy behind the project and watch that in action !!!
This is fantastic. I love how so many of the important details to optimal human function are so well thought out and implemented. Brilliant work. Thank you for your empowering example.
Beautiful Project. Very inspiring to many others. I'm very interested in how they ensure the cohesiveness and stability of the group socially. It is so commonly the undoing of other intentional communities.
I got the impression they just don't ask too much from the people that are in the community. You pitch in to maintain shared areas instead of paying some contractor to do it for you. However, you live your own private life much as you would anywhere else.
Wow, I LOVE this!!! I wish this was possible to do everywhere, but it doesn't surprise me that this project is in Holland, the friendliest country I've ever personally visited, having visited about 1/10 of all the countries of Earth.
Id really like to hear more details about this project. Who started it? Who can join? How is conflict resolved? How are finances figured? How is food and waste delt with? How was land surveyed and allocated? How far from the city are you? I have so many questions
I want to live in a community like that in Central America. It's really nice being able to grow your own food and medicine all year long with the only change being wet or dry. Earthships already have a greenhouse and I would make mine extra huge. That way the wet season doesn't affect the indoor gardens. And outside it's easy to grow yuca and stuff that's adapted to the area. I lived in Central America for 9 years and I miss it. An Earthship or something similar there is my dream, hopefully in an area with more hippie types.
What you have created is beautiful and I am sure many of us are envious. Side note: watch out of the buddleja davidii (which i have seen zoomed in on a few time) because it is exotic and extremely invasive and it must be contained.
do car insurance companies allow for any driver to drive the vehicle and still be covered in case of an accident? Big ups to the Dutch for all their ingenuitive work advancing society to a cleaner planet. always inspiring
3:16 in a few sentences he exposes a lot of the flaws in earthship homes. I was fairly obsessed with them for a year couple years, then i realized there are better ideas the function just as well or better with a lot less work & time (=money).
I was as well, but now all I think about (aside from the intense labor) is the off gassing of the tires. I brought this up in the comments of a video on an earthship home a while back and unintentionally offended the person. But they didn't offer any counter information. Other than that, I really do like the idea.
@@tracy419the tires produce gasses only when exposed to weather. In the dirt (and some cement between the living space) they do not produce gas. That's why they are a cool building item, because at the same time you take them from the tire piles where they produce the gas.
@@tracy419 There is no hard and fast rule that you absolutely must use tires for your Earthship wall. As mentioned in the video it was taking too long and going overbudget so they used an alternative that is functionally the same.
@@TheRealHonestInquiry Why not just use compressed earth blocks instead? Material is available everywhere, has no cost and the machinery is DIYable. Anyway, I'm curious to know what alternatives you used.
@@mariaoiklou973 Ummm... No. They may produce very little gas when out of the heat and sunlight, but they are still off gassing. Don't believe me, inflate a tire, put it inside for a few months then let the air out. I guarantee you the air coming out of that tire will have a tire smell to it. Is it a health hazard? With the proper ventilation rate, probably not. What's the proper ventilation rate? Who the heck knows, we are just now beginning to get an understanding of indoor chemistry and we don't have a great understanding of what proper ventilation rates really are for "normal" houses, much less for houses built with non-standard materials.
... I remember as a child asking that same question ...Why do animals take care of themselves, build their homes, forage and hunt for food. But grown ups stop playing and have to pay bills. The animals are free, why aren't we. As an adult I'm remembering the only one true sauce is love, fear is a human condition that fearful thoughts manifest negatively. I pray as a collective we open our hearts and consciousness to the power of LOVE to manifest joy into this world ❤⁸
I long for Community Living. I think we need it to be healthy and were not getting it in our industrious world. I don't want to give up the technology that makes mundane necessary tasks easier, but I don't want the tech to be the divider of the social fabric we have lost in the western world. I think we should be rebuilding our cities with the Village in mind.
id love to do something like this, building my own town. of course wed have equipment to make farming easier, build my own wifi network so the children dont get brain rot. then do lots of food storage, freeze drying, jarring/canning, this way during winter everyone can work on learning things like the arts
5:13 i wonder how much of this shuffling is done voluntarily and how much is mandated. Certainly there is value in many people understanding many aspects of how the community functions, but there is also value in people doing what they're good at and really enjoy doing. Hopefully the system balances that out!
Didn't you listen? It's for everyone to learn the necessary skills to maintain the whole community, for example everyone learns how to cook or clean or maintain the clean drinking water system, or build a house, or install electricity, instead of just having one expert and 50 people not knowing anything, so that if anyone leaves or someone dies, it's not a loss, everyone else in the whole community can take over and keep doing the necessary maintenance, daily functioning, repair or install anything needed
Wonderful houses! I can only hope I’ll be able to live in something similar as I get older. For the domes I have to wonder if covering them with coconut fiber mat would allow for better growth?
I love your project and I have plan to create project same you too I hope that one day we will can to be friend and make this world full-fill of happiness with nature connect our soul ☺️ Thank you so much for your video
@@Catthepunk It's still in the planning phase but you can just google the name for a 3D overview. There's a link in the comments if you want to get into the details.
Really love solarpunk, knowing of how many alternatives there are for capitalist and hirarchical ways of living really gives me hope, stay strong you all ♡♡♡
I was thinking in the future we can genetically modified a tree to grow in a house shape, it will have a self healing property as long as there nutrients on the soil, so no more excessive logging and excessive concrete production
pretty cool. I really admire theses projects. I still feel the overreliance on solar panels isn't a very self sufficient approach. its easy now because if they break or you want to expand the grid... just go buy another. i guess its a compromise to have the luxury of reliable electricity.
Random question about car tire wall: Is it possible to split tires in half (meaning if you lay a tire flat on the floor, split it horizontally so you get two open doughnuts) and then stack them, rubber side down? Would that Save a lot of time stuffing the tires? But then the reduced friction between the rubber and dirt in the open doughnuts might reduce shear strength? Compared to rubber against rubber. What about adding a stabilizer like 7% lime or 5% cement into the fill ? So many questions. No chance to experiment. Asking for potential future reference.
I've seen a couple of Earthship builds that used tire bales, very large tire bales, as the back wall. They felt like the performance is similar to the rammed earth tires but does require heavy equipment to unload, position, and stack. The tire wall of the original Earthships rely on the rammed earth for thermal mass and the tires seem like they are mostly just easily moved containers and building blocks.
I would guess breaking up the circular shape of the tires reduces the integrity of the whole structure as circles have no weak point. Cutting the tires open would make them wobbly and make the rammed earth susceptible to decompression I think.
Not my thing, but i appreciated knowledge sharing as apart of building a community resilience - a good idea. Also interesting comment on community outgrowing its connections with over 25 families or so. Sounds like we have not evolved beyond tribalism after all.
I think most earthships separate gray water (kichen, shower, laundry) and black water (toilet). In the grey water system biologically degradable soaps and detergents are used, the water is usually filtered through sand and gravel before being used to water crops. Black water may be directed to a septic tank where organic mater is decomposed by microorganisms, see it as similar to a compost heap just with additional liquid. The resulting water is usually treated in a similar way as the grey water but is not used to water food crops or at least not crops that grow close to the ground.
Le plus difficile dans ces projets c’est l’adhésion des personnes et le budget. Est-ce que ce type de projet est abordable à tous ? Dans le temps est-ce que cela fonctionne ? As ton asser de recul ?
Probably not, I see too little farmland or planted crops around the area and the guy explained that there are people from all different kinds of professions. They probably do get a fair share of produce relative to their plot of land and most of the inhabitants will likely buy locally grown organic produce for the things that they don't grow themselves
Het lijkt me ook leuk een huis te bouwen zoals arme landarbeiders vroeger: van turf. Maar dan met meer hout en staal erbij dat het langer houdt. Of iets met wol als isolatie.
I only ever see things like this done on a small scale, like village, town or small community level. Never on a large scale like a city or a state or region. Does that mean that things like these are much more realistic and achievable because they're done on a small scale and therefore accountability and transparency are more viable?
denmark have given a couple of smaller areas permits to experiment with buildings and materials i would say i have ssen copenhagen transform and experiment alot ofcourse you dont replace a big city in 2 days, and we also have some historie to protect a part of copenhagen have been like this and alot more in 50 years (christiania) and that have done alot to the way people think that is is a part of the culture and historie of the city.. a couple ideas from christioana have been used later in normal buildings or in experiments in large scale in buildings in CPH and around the world eu have a goal of zero co2 buldings and we do have to impliment it into the building codes in eu alot of the old experimental houses was not good for your health or good to live in if you are old or sick.. these sort of things are not good to put into mass production
You mean vertically? I think you could quite literally increase the size of the whole thing but the main problem is the surface area taken up by the earth wall which functions as a thermal battery. I reckon it would be possible to dig a large pit for a chemical thermal battery based on non-toxic salts and hook it up to a well-insulated multi-story building with a good air ventilation system and heat exchanger but it may be cheaper and easier to just leave out the thermal battery and use the heat/cold storing capacity of the earth itself.
See that's the problem with anything eco friendly; they all want to force you to be part of their "community". It's not enough that you are doing your part to save the earth, they can't just leave people ALONE.
Your description has a typo, it is called the Aardenhuizen Peoject. You misspelled Aarden as Aaden. Aardenhuizen is dutch for Earth (Aard) House (Huis)
Please make some connections with UK gov who are about to change the planning regulations to build a LOT more houses- your expertise would be well received in many quarters- if not we will simply be giving vile-home builders a tonne of support and cash.
better to look into what denmark have done in these cases christiania in the center of copenhagen and friland for example (2 experimental areas like this) have had permits to experiment with building material and buildings im pretty sure thy lejren (thy camp) also have permit for experimenting the experiment on christiania is more or less done, but friland lives on (friland = freeland) in that way it can be used for experimenting for later building codes bulding codes should after all be safe and be gentle on the nature, you have to test these factors first, before using it in big scale many of the older houses in these places do let out a bit of polution thatrs to the ways they are heated and the way people make their food for example so they was not that healthy to live in, and they did not make the best place for old people for example it was a bit of a hard lifestyle you can hear in this video they have problems with strict building codes in nederland on this area. so looking for advice in that direction is not the best thing to do the building codes in eu are the same so its not a matter of how the building codes look like to do what you want in eu its a matter of giving permits to experiment with this sort of stuff (if i remember correct these are found on local level in denmark, it is the city council and not the goverment that gives the permit to experiment with the buildings in denmark ) we also know we have some rules in 2030 comming regarding buildings and co2 and insulation.. so the experiments also need to follow some sort of standard to be usefull as buildings in the long run or else we pretty much have to take down the house after 2030 in eu unless it is a historical building of some sort
The principles I like and thumbs up for the hard work! I just wanted to give my critical opinion because there are too less opinions in this world 🤪. I’m a real design lover and also love esthetic architecture. Well let me just be critic on the interior. I just wished there were communities with people that love iconic design furniture. The reason why is because real design is somehow durable. I saw a Poang chair in the house of ikea and some leather sofa’s that were trendy in the year 2000 but you will have to replace those in 15 years time. As well as the fabricated things that are just not cohesive in my view wich is sad because it seems like durable vision was the base point. Long story short , it’s not because its ecologic that it shouldn’t look good. But then again I’m just easy typing here so “petje af” for the effort and vision. For the not dutch people: petje af is like the same as “I take my had off for you guys”.
The guy stated that the people who live their are from all kinds of professions so that must mean that many people who live there work jobs outside of their community.
An earthship is a sustainable living concept for housing developed by Mike Reynolds. They are usually built from second hand materials. The walls are most often built with discarded car tires which are packed with earth and then sealed up with clay. On the north side there is a thick earthen wall and a glass wall on the south. (Or the other way around on the southern hemisphere) The earth wall and the soil in the tire walls take up the heat from the sun during the day while radiating out this heat at night. I have seen videos of earthships in Canada that only needed additional heating a few days a year in winter!
For those who were trying their darndest to figure out the size, like I was, I Google-mapped it and then measured it. It's approximately 3-4 acres of land. I just purchased 3.5 acres in AZ and will begin building a small village in the New Year so this was super inspirational with scale in mind.
Nice. Can I be president?
i have the knowledge and skills to build a compact nuclear reactor that will power between 600-1500 households. If you want to build more vertical (5-8 story-house) it can be done within your landzone
@@sicitydonmo3016 and i build the airport and the jumbo jet !
@@sicitydonmo3016a compact reactor might be too much for a 3.5 acre low density households land😂
@@duckduck9487 you can sell the leftover electricity and make some money with it + you can be sure that you dont need to worry about it for the at least the next 40 years.
Great project! Excellent example of what's possible when a group of sensible people empower themselves to create a living environment that actually meets the combined needs of humans and nature. There should be millions of these communities all over Europe.
We should likely be examining these as small scale proof of concepts and converting even our largest structures into sustainable environments.
how beautiful and amazing
this deserves a full documentary with an hour long at least
I agree with you. Good to see other people interested in those projects!
We need more of these all over the world.
Would you join this type of community/lifestyle?
@@discoverFigureitout for sure
@@discoverFigureitoutpersonally? Totally.
@@discoverFigureitout Have you seen Squatting and homeless community?
So funny to find this video, 10 years ago during my environmental science studies me and my classmates helped building for a while. Back then we were building the tyre walls and we helped with roofing. It was a lot of fun
Beautiful! It's so important to know how to build our own homes. Well done!
I enjoyed the video, however there were several times where the music overpowered the speakers voice making it very hard to understand, even with subtitles.
I could understand what he was saying but because I have a medical condition which makes sensory processing challenging I found the addition of music so disturbing I couldn’t follow this to the end.
Music in TV shows, the news, RUclips, etc. is quite annoying! I miss so much of what is said.
That's why I love the comment section of other people. I learn from other people and implement what I learn on my channel. Thank u folks 😊
It’s simple turn on closed captions and turn the volume off it will. Help
I think they fixed it!
I dream to one day live in a community like this, where people share skills and resources. To me, this is how humans used to live, if you go back far enough in time.
Modern society has taken away a lot of these human natures, here in the UK, we keep ourselves to ourselves in our own houses, and don't tend to cooperate with our neighbours, its sad to me, and I wish I could live like these in this ecovillage one day
I don't know if there are many like this, but the U.S. has many communes that are always welcoming new people. It is a bit of a swim though
The uk seems to be especially like this, people living in neighbourhoods never knowing their neighbours or even looking up to say hi
Yeah, but then you have to live with these people & there's always a few who are lazy & take advantage.
Unless people stay on top of it, it'll soon be full of addicts & other useless soycialists.
Bullocks! The United Kingdom is the reason why we no longer live like the communities we used to back then. You called this type of living backward and uncivilized and everything in between! 400 years later now people are only starting to re-realize that communal living is more sustainable. Gtfoh
It seems like a wonderful community! Well done all of you!
Awesome video. Thank u very much for sharing. Very Nice and enjoyable narration, and very happy to perceive the great philosophy behind the project and watch that in action !!!
I would love to live in a place like this
Beautiful, we just need more trees♥️🌺🌴🙏🏼
Thank you very much for promoting such a beautiful and necessary culture .
This is fantastic. I love how so many of the important details to optimal human function are so well thought out and implemented. Brilliant work. Thank you for your empowering example.
This looks so beautiful. This is where humanity needs to be ❤
The sick dig at the netherlands warms my soul
Beautiful Project. Very inspiring to many others. I'm very interested in how they ensure the cohesiveness and stability of the group socially. It is so commonly the undoing of other intentional communities.
I got the impression they just don't ask too much from the people that are in the community.
You pitch in to maintain shared areas instead of paying some contractor to do it for you.
However, you live your own private life much as you would anywhere else.
Fantastic community design! Congratulations!!
Wow, I LOVE this!!! I wish this was possible to do everywhere, but it doesn't surprise me that this project is in Holland, the friendliest country I've ever personally visited, having visited about 1/10 of all the countries of Earth.
Eco is the future for the world!
чудова ідея, створити невеличке суспільство, яке намагається автономно жити і творити . Така модель суспільства дає шанс на хороше і щасливе життя.
I wish I could live with them, its so rare to find them.
Id really like to hear more details about this project. Who started it? Who can join? How is conflict resolved? How are finances figured? How is food and waste delt with? How was land surveyed and allocated? How far from the city are you?
I have so many questions
There's a link in the video description box to the project's website.
it's so calming , i can imagine me being there
I want to live in a community like that in Central America. It's really nice being able to grow your own food and medicine all year long with the only change being wet or dry. Earthships already have a greenhouse and I would make mine extra huge. That way the wet season doesn't affect the indoor gardens. And outside it's easy to grow yuca and stuff that's adapted to the area. I lived in Central America for 9 years and I miss it. An Earthship or something similar there is my dream, hopefully in an area with more hippie types.
What you have created is beautiful and I am sure many of us are envious.
Side note: watch out of the buddleja davidii (which i have seen zoomed in on a few time) because it is exotic and extremely invasive and it must be contained.
Amazing! I wish we could all live like this.
do car insurance companies allow for any driver to drive the vehicle and still be covered in case of an accident? Big ups to the Dutch for all their ingenuitive work advancing society to a cleaner planet. always inspiring
Cool. I had no idea that something like this was in my home country...
3:16 in a few sentences he exposes a lot of the flaws in earthship homes. I was fairly obsessed with them for a year couple years, then i realized there are better ideas the function just as well or better with a lot less work & time (=money).
I was as well, but now all I think about (aside from the intense labor) is the off gassing of the tires.
I brought this up in the comments of a video on an earthship home a while back and unintentionally offended the person.
But they didn't offer any counter information.
Other than that, I really do like the idea.
@@tracy419the tires produce gasses only when exposed to weather. In the dirt (and some cement between the living space) they do not produce gas. That's why they are a cool building item, because at the same time you take them from the tire piles where they produce the gas.
@@tracy419 There is no hard and fast rule that you absolutely must use tires for your Earthship wall. As mentioned in the video it was taking too long and going overbudget so they used an alternative that is functionally the same.
@@TheRealHonestInquiry Why not just use compressed earth blocks instead? Material is available everywhere, has no cost and the machinery is DIYable. Anyway, I'm curious to know what alternatives you used.
@@mariaoiklou973 Ummm... No. They may produce very little gas when out of the heat and sunlight, but they are still off gassing. Don't believe me, inflate a tire, put it inside for a few months then let the air out. I guarantee you the air coming out of that tire will have a tire smell to it.
Is it a health hazard? With the proper ventilation rate, probably not. What's the proper ventilation rate? Who the heck knows, we are just now beginning to get an understanding of indoor chemistry and we don't have a great understanding of what proper ventilation rates really are for "normal" houses, much less for houses built with non-standard materials.
I like the down to earth attitude. Crazy how much bureaucracy is needed for a building like that. Great Project! Do they offer ESC´s ?
Japanese wisteria will completely cover the domes if you give them a wire grid about 30 cm above the concrete.
... I remember as a child asking that same question ...Why do animals take care of themselves, build their homes, forage and hunt for food. But grown ups stop playing and have to pay bills. The animals are free, why aren't we.
As an adult I'm remembering the only one true sauce is love, fear is a human condition that fearful thoughts manifest negatively. I pray as a collective we open our hearts and consciousness to the power of LOVE to manifest joy into this world ❤⁸
Animals don't pay rent LMAO, renting is a scam
Hempcrete would be a good alternative to Straw? Any ideas to use it in the future??
What a dream to live there!
I like how the typo is how a dutch person pronounces earthship 😂
I long for Community Living. I think we need it to be healthy and were not getting it in our industrious world. I don't want to give up the technology that makes mundane necessary tasks easier, but I don't want the tech to be the divider of the social fabric we have lost in the western world. I think we should be rebuilding our cities with the Village in mind.
every metropolitan needs to turn into earthships with tower farms so we can return earth to the way it was originally.
id love to do something like this, building my own town. of course wed have equipment to make farming easier, build my own wifi network so the children dont get brain rot. then do lots of food storage, freeze drying, jarring/canning, this way during winter everyone can work on learning things like the arts
“All creatures on this planet know how to build their houses, except for Western human”
What a striking sentence
To fix the domes, use a thin spread of the chia moss cement!!!
Understanding what diverisity is and why it needs to be protected not exterminated by invading ethnic and social pressure
Ik weet nog dat ik rond 2010-2012 zoiets jullie al volgde over de aardhuis-community. Ik er toen graag bij gekomen.
This is the way ❤
Great video look like say you guys make a lot of work
This is my true dream. Maybe, one day.
5:13 i wonder how much of this shuffling is done voluntarily and how much is mandated. Certainly there is value in many people understanding many aspects of how the community functions, but there is also value in people doing what they're good at and really enjoy doing.
Hopefully the system balances that out!
Didn't you listen? It's for everyone to learn the necessary skills to maintain the whole community, for example everyone learns how to cook or clean or maintain the clean drinking water system, or build a house, or install electricity, instead of just having one expert and 50 people not knowing anything, so that if anyone leaves or someone dies, it's not a loss, everyone else in the whole community can take over and keep doing the necessary maintenance, daily functioning, repair or install anything needed
Wonderful houses! I can only hope I’ll be able to live in something similar as I get older.
For the domes I have to wonder if covering them with coconut fiber mat would allow for better growth?
they should be build with local materials
so that is up to the people that have cocnuts to figure out, not the dutch
I love your project and I have plan to create project same you too I hope that one day we will can to be friend and make this world full-fill of happiness with nature connect our soul ☺️ Thank you so much for your video
Greta idea and I'd love to build something like this in BC.... considering all the land unused and not occupied should be easy..... but. . Lol
Amazing! It seems they have monoculture plantations... I think an agroforestry mixed with the houses would be a good improvement.
I've planning something similar lately even if it goes even further. It's called Humania Town for anyone curious.
Where?
Where?
@@Catthepunk It's still in the planning phase but you can just google the name for a 3D overview. There's a link in the comments if you want to get into the details.
@@ziad_jkhan thnx
@@giulias.5104 My previous comment answers the question hopefully, else feel free to let me know. I can't post a link here without it being shadowed.
Really love solarpunk, knowing of how many alternatives there are for capitalist and hirarchical ways of living really gives me hope, stay strong you all ♡♡♡
I was thinking in the future we can genetically modified a tree to grow in a house shape, it will have a self healing property as long as there nutrients on the soil, so no more excessive logging and excessive concrete production
Greetings and Salutations
Well,
Absolutely LOVE to start on a 5-year #garden
AGAIN.. Just #rugged
#ecovillagelife #biodome #freshAirCAMP
🧘♀️
Wow, my dream made real ❤
our dream one day
Kirsten Dirksen must be invited to showcase !? ☝️❤️✌️🌍🙏
Inspirational.❤
I hope it is a place free of fear, I have something like that.
Fear is anxiety of future. Only way to escape it is to become stronger😊 and leaning to let go. The place without fear is inside you.
pretty cool. I really admire theses projects. I still feel the overreliance on solar panels isn't a very self sufficient approach. its easy now because if they break or you want to expand the grid... just go buy another. i guess its a compromise to have the luxury of reliable electricity.
Random question about car tire wall:
Is it possible to split tires in half (meaning if you lay a tire flat on the floor, split it horizontally so you get two open doughnuts)
and then stack them, rubber side down?
Would that Save a lot of time stuffing the tires?
But then the reduced friction between the rubber and dirt in the open doughnuts might reduce shear strength? Compared to rubber against rubber.
What about adding a stabilizer like 7% lime or 5% cement into the fill ?
So many questions.
No chance to experiment.
Asking for potential future reference.
I've seen a couple of Earthship builds that used tire bales, very large tire bales, as the back wall. They felt like the performance is similar to the rammed earth tires but does require heavy equipment to unload, position, and stack. The tire wall of the original Earthships rely on the rammed earth for thermal mass and the tires seem like they are mostly just easily moved containers and building blocks.
I would guess breaking up the circular shape of the tires reduces the integrity of the whole structure as circles have no weak point. Cutting the tires open would make them wobbly and make the rammed earth susceptible to decompression I think.
Build these near the equator - "utopia" year round!
Not my thing, but i appreciated knowledge sharing as apart of building a community resilience - a good idea. Also interesting comment on community outgrowing its connections with over 25 families or so. Sounds like we have not evolved beyond tribalism after all.
Cost? In American dollars?
Explain me how you solve the problem of waste water and sewage treatment plants before I might start to admire your project.
I think most earthships separate gray water (kichen, shower, laundry) and black water (toilet). In the grey water system biologically degradable soaps and detergents are used, the water is usually filtered through sand and gravel before being used to water crops. Black water may be directed to a septic tank where organic mater is decomposed by microorganisms, see it as similar to a compost heap just with additional liquid. The resulting water is usually treated in a similar way as the grey water but is not used to water food crops or at least not crops that grow close to the ground.
the Ukranian flag made me cry, thank you so much incredible people for supporting us.
Le plus difficile dans ces projets c’est l’adhésion des personnes et le budget. Est-ce que ce type de projet est abordable à tous ? Dans le temps est-ce que cela fonctionne ? As ton asser de recul ?
Where is that?
The music is far too loud. I couldn't watch this because of how loud and annoying the music is.
So u grow all ur food here?
Probably not, I see too little farmland or planted crops around the area and the guy explained that there are people from all different kinds of professions. They probably do get a fair share of produce relative to their plot of land and most of the inhabitants will likely buy locally grown organic produce for the things that they don't grow themselves
Shaky cam makes it hard for some people to watch.
Het lijkt me ook leuk een huis te bouwen zoals arme landarbeiders vroeger: van turf. Maar dan met meer hout en staal erbij dat het langer houdt. Of iets met wol als isolatie.
I thought these were gonna be earthships?
I only ever see things like this done on a small scale, like village, town or small community level. Never on a large scale like a city or a state or region. Does that mean that things like these are much more realistic and achievable because they're done on a small scale and therefore accountability and transparency are more viable?
denmark have given a couple of smaller areas permits to experiment with buildings and materials
i would say i have ssen copenhagen transform and experiment alot
ofcourse you dont replace a big city in 2 days, and we also have some historie to protect
a part of copenhagen have been like this and alot more in 50 years (christiania)
and that have done alot to the way people think that is is a part of the culture and historie of the city..
a couple ideas from christioana have been used later in normal buildings
or in experiments in large scale in buildings in CPH and around the world
eu have a goal of zero co2 buldings
and we do have to impliment it into the building codes in eu
alot of the old experimental houses was not good for your health or good to live in if you are old or sick..
these sort of things are not good to put into mass production
Where's your forest?
Can earthships be scaled up for more Apartments?
You mean vertically? I think you could quite literally increase the size of the whole thing but the main problem is the surface area taken up by the earth wall which functions as a thermal battery. I reckon it would be possible to dig a large pit for a chemical thermal battery based on non-toxic salts and hook it up to a well-insulated multi-story building with a good air ventilation system and heat exchanger but it may be cheaper and easier to just leave out the thermal battery and use the heat/cold storing capacity of the earth itself.
See that's the problem with anything eco friendly; they all want to force you to be part of their "community". It's not enough that you are doing your part to save the earth, they can't just leave people ALONE.
Very cool:)
Love anything self-sufficient and government free. Fcuk the control and overreach.
Your description has a typo, it is called the Aardenhuizen Peoject. You misspelled Aarden as Aaden. Aardenhuizen is dutch for Earth (Aard) House (Huis)
the moment i heard "diversity" i knew where this was going
I'm starting to think it was referring to biodiversity as in various fauna and flora..
@@RextheRebel You can no longer say diversity of flowers or trees because they are offended
@@potatsioxd damnit. You're right. I wasn't thinking about their feelings... What a bigot I am.
people dont realize the amount of excess heat that can be recycled
typo in video title btw!
Eartships instead of Earthships
Where are the people?
Please make some connections with UK gov who are about to change the planning regulations to build a LOT more houses- your expertise would be well received in many quarters- if not we will simply be giving vile-home builders a tonne of support and cash.
better to look into what denmark have done in these cases
christiania in the center of copenhagen and friland for example (2 experimental areas like this) have had permits to experiment with building material and buildings
im pretty sure thy lejren (thy camp) also have permit for experimenting
the experiment on christiania is more or less done, but friland lives on (friland = freeland)
in that way it can be used for experimenting for later building codes
bulding codes should after all be safe and be gentle on the nature, you have to test these factors first, before using it in big scale
many of the older houses in these places do let out a bit of polution thatrs to the ways they are heated and the way people make their food for example
so they was not that healthy to live in, and they did not make the best place for old people for example
it was a bit of a hard lifestyle
you can hear in this video they have problems with strict building codes in nederland on this area.
so looking for advice in that direction is not the best thing to do
the building codes in eu are the same
so its not a matter of how the building codes look like to do what you want in eu
its a matter of giving permits to experiment with this sort of stuff (if i remember correct these are found on local level in denmark, it is the city council and not the goverment that gives the permit to experiment with the buildings in denmark )
we also know we have some rules in 2030 comming regarding buildings and co2 and insulation..
so the experiments also need to follow some sort of standard to be usefull as buildings in the long run
or else we pretty much have to take down the house after 2030 in eu
unless it is a historical building of some sort
until the first teenager gets muscle
Midsommar vibes.
I believe it would be wise to start living a way of life using the least possible electricity.
The principles I like and thumbs up for the hard work! I just wanted to give my critical opinion because there are too less opinions in this world 🤪. I’m a real design lover and also love esthetic architecture. Well let me just be critic on the interior. I just wished there were communities with people that love iconic design furniture. The reason why is because real design is somehow durable. I saw a Poang chair in the house of ikea and some leather sofa’s that were trendy in the year 2000 but you will have to replace those in 15 years time. As well as the fabricated things that are just not cohesive in my view wich is sad because it seems like durable vision was the base point.
Long story short , it’s not because its ecologic that it shouldn’t look good. But then again I’m just easy typing here so “petje af” for the effort and vision. For the not dutch people: petje af is like the same as “I take my had off for you guys”.
OMG HOW DARE they not get the exact furniture style that you would get
@ How dare you be such an a*hole on the comment 🤣
"Eartship"? Is that like an Earthship?
But how does your community generate an income?
The guy stated that the people who live their are from all kinds of professions so that must mean that many people who live there work jobs outside of their community.
Even if everything isn t perfect, it s should be the norm
What’s an eartship?
An earthship is a sustainable living concept for housing developed by Mike Reynolds. They are usually built from second hand materials. The walls are most often built with discarded car tires which are packed with earth and then sealed up with clay. On the north side there is a thick earthen wall and a glass wall on the south. (Or the other way around on the southern hemisphere) The earth wall and the soil in the tire walls take up the heat from the sun during the day while radiating out this heat at night. I have seen videos of earthships in Canada that only needed additional heating a few days a year in winter!
Mailbox #32 seems quite ordinary.
Wish I wasn't disabled and could live like this 😞
Nice, but please don't use tires, they're toxic and emit poisonous fumes.
Typo in your title! Great video though.
While I enjoyed the film and the excellent narration. The music seemed completely out of character and volume for a deliberately, gentler lifestyle.
All the solar its not echo