From Earthships to Aircrete! Im teaching a Dome building workshops with Domegaia!
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- Опубликовано: 11 сен 2024
- Im going to Utah this June to help teach an Aircrete Dome workshop!
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I just want to say…. HOLY COW!! This is amazing!
We should get back to natural building, lime, sand, clay, rock, gravel, fiber, and a little lumber.... the supplies we need are free and under our feet.
AWESOME brother , good that you are linking up with Dome Gaia. Thank you for everything you do! Alosha
Looks amazing! Wish I could leave Canada 😝 - best wishes 💜 much love
Same...I'm thinking of making a run for it!! Things aren't getting any better here!!
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Absolutely beautiful 💕🌎🇺🇦🙏🏻☮️🌈💗👍🌷thankyou
Looking forward to your videos from the event.
Hope i could join the event ! If not, i look forward to your recap👍🏻🔥
I would love to go but I’m in NY 😩😩
I’m from Belize Central America, would consider an aircrete structure hurricane resistant?
Hi! I'm wanting to build an aircrete dome in Mt Shasta...do you know anyone who can engineer a plan anywhere in Northern Ca? Thank you
Quick question for You. What’s the difference between Air Crete and Shot Crete that Monolithic Dome Institute in Italy, Texas uses in their Domes????
So I have a question.
From the looks of your pictures it looks like you have to buy lumber, plywood, metal pipe, wire mesh, the material to mix the aircreete, etc.
My question is is anything recycled materials or is it all new materials?
The earth ships use a lot of recycled waste, seem more climate stable with thermal mass, etc.
Now I will admit that aircreete looks more stable and suitable in a tropical environment if a person does not want a earth ship style home or even a traditional house...
Respectfully.
Good question Charles, when it comes to the sourcing of recycled/local materials, I would say that is very dependent on the project manager. Regardless of earthship or aircrete dome, the very act of sourcing materials takes time and storage space. Additionally, re-using materials often means more labor is involved. Therefore one must measure wether they have the time/space/labor to use such materials...
Because aircrete domes only represent the shell of a structure and not the entire systems package, it's not fair to compare them to earthships. Once plumbing and electrical systems are introduced, it becomes more difficult ( and risky ) to use "found"/ recycled materials. Except for may old solar panels and batteries to get you going.
Overall, Domegaia does not address systems the way Earthship Biotecture does. The ideal design of a structure should take into account the local climate, material availability, labor availability and so on... Hope that helps!
@@TheOffGridGuru yes it does.... Like I stated I am just curious... The aircreete system to me looks like it would be great in a tropical climate... It would do great against the monsoons and hurricanes... I guess I have to admit that I am for recycling as much as we can and having to manufacture all new materials is probably faster, and maybe even easier, just not as earth friendly..
With that being said you have given me lots to think about... Thank you.
Hello! I am hoping that someone can explain how this is environmentally friendly. Thank you!
Is it weird to imagine pouring this aircrete into tires? I have never built an "earthship" or mixed aircrete or concrete for that matter so I have no idea what I am talking about. I'm just feeling like the process of filling the tires with dirt seems so needlessly labor intensive when the object seems to be "build with recycled materials". Couldn't you make a concrete or aircrete like mixture out of recycled or repurposed things and then wrap the tire in an envelope of recycled plastic and then fill it with the mixture? I mean, the end goal is heat retention with those walls right? It just seems like the dirt part is counterintuitive and introduces an organism filled, non recycled element to the process. Maybe that's just me.
We are not filling tires with aircrete.
@@TheOffGridGuru it wouldn't need to be aircrete. What I am asking is, isn't there some other thing you could *pour* into a tire other than dirt which doesn't bring with it all the microorganisms that dirt includes.
@@AaronSteinPittsburgh thanks for clarifying. Often the first course of Tires are filled with gravel for drainage purposes and it is common to fill tires entirely with sand if that is whats available.
How can I know in advance of these workshops so I can plan ahead 🙏🏼
Could you combine some of the systems of an earthship into an aircrete structure
Yes of course! Im hoping to do that soon
@@TheOffGridGuru very interested to see that happen. Best of luck
Built in ac from earthship and the different ways water is reused in an earthship combined with an aircrete structure would definitely be THE BEST offgrid home
I kinda liked the idea, but since this seems to be mostly focused on advertising those workshops in Utah that I can't possibly attend, and there was no concrete info on how to make that aircret blocks, I guess I will search somewhere else, not even opening your site, nor checking other videos of yours...
My general feeling after watching this video is like I've been watching a advertisement video and waiting for the skip to the good stuff part...I guess there's no good stuff
Thanks for the comment and Sorry to disappoint Paulo. Unfortunately I don’t have footage explaining how to make aircrete yet :/ But I promise to film the process this time and share!
Will there be any more future courses beyond what’s happening next month?
Yeah, check out the Domegaia website for the schedule
I’m interested … are the domes for all seasons & environments or just desert ? I’m in south Florida and also thinking of land in New York State. I will study the website
This style in South florida would work great! In NY you would need a heating system of some kind for the winter.
for me, the selling point of earthship tire walls is the thermal mass and the passive solar working together to create the man-made-cave-like temperature controlled environment. with an aircrete dome, how does it fare in extreme temperatures? for example the taos, NM area: would an enclosed aircrete dome out on the mesa need heating and cooling systems? it seems to me like yes it's well insulated, but it's not going to perform like a bermed tire wall would. am I correct?
Great observation chad, you are correct. It will not perform like a buried tire wall no. The round shape of the room will also create different convection patterns inside. An enclosed dome on the mesa would need a heating system but most likely not cooling, as it is mostly shaded inside (unless the design is hybridized for passive solar.)
@@TheOffGridGuru I would be interested in seeing such a passive solar hybridization. I've got land in unit 4 and will begin building in June. my initial thought was to start with an Earthship Hut and add styrofoam-aircrete domes and archways as needed to connect additional spaces. I'm now considering using super adobe earthbags to make the hut so it requires less taxing labor, but performs in a similar way when temperatures rise and fall. what do you think?
@@ChadRiden I would insulate the outside of the superadobe walls with aircrete and make the roof out of aircrete. The way you are thinking, you should watch my interviews with Alosha: ruclips.net/p/PLqp-SkZkzk5ywreFD3WZPjUZnZGES26p1
If you have started by the time I get back from Utah, I would love to see what you have come up with :) Hit me up! www.earthshipmodelkit.com/contact
I enjoy your videos very much. You build earthship houses?
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I am buying land in Hawaii / big island could you build my domes and make it a workshop for you I want aircrete mushroom/ fairy village for me and my daughter&granddaughter I'm a cancer survivor who lost my husband /p parents and 11 loves one's in the last 4 years and want to be with my girls that are living in Hawaii/ big island these would be wonderful to live in the remainder of my journey I'm in Utah right now working on selling my house to do this very thing❤
Wow, what a story Meg… Hang in there! Love the fairy village vision 🍄 Contact us when you are ready using the contact form on our website: www.theoffgridguru.com
Question,
can you do a aircreate dome in the same way thats done in the survival earthship?
I like your thinking, Yes you can replace the vault material with aircrete. but Im unsure about burying an aircrete vault the way they do to the ferrocement vault in the survival Earthship. I haven’t seen it tested yet…
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Maybe it doesn't have to be buried, it could be light enough to be put on in layers then coated, my understanding air create is good thermal mass and insulated, do a small earthship structure and if you need a little extra heat heat a small rocket mass heater, I also was thinking about using air create as a mass heater with solar hot water tubes going through hooked up to a solar hot water panel, the hot water heats your tank first then through the mass bench.
Certainly doesn’t need to buried if its only the roof that is aircrete. However if you are looking to replicate the passive performance of the simple survival you would need to incorporate mass into the walls.@@ronaldsahn9649 Aircrete is only insulation not mass. Any thermal mass coming from an aircrete construction would be in the form of an added layer of plaster or brick over the aircrete.
@@TheOffGridGuru what is the approximate R value of aircrete? Wondering how it would perform in cold zones.
@@regenesismedia2180 5 per inch. Usually the blocks are 4” for an R value of 20 ;)
Hey! This is wonderful! Please contact me ! I’d love to invite you to lead a workshop for my farm school in California! I have many lovely people who’d love to participate!
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I wanted to watch you but the girl bun told me everything.
Aircrete is superior than earthships