Futuristic Eco-Homes
Khalili’s California Institute of Earth Art and Architecture (CalEarth) designs eco-friendly dome homes which look like they come from the future. They are so energy efficient and self-contained, it has been predicted that these models will be used to design the homes that may one day be built on the moon!
Founder Nader Khalili is regularly invited to NASA to give speeches and presentations about breakthroughs with his work.
“To me it’s obvious to use earth as a building block,” Khalili said in a recent interview. “I don’t consider that I have invented anything at all.”
“We dig up the ground. The earth is placed into sacks. We pile them up and then fix them in place,” Khalili explains.
“All our designs rely on the arch, whether it’s the large domed houses or the smaller dwellings. The traditional shape of a square house with vertical walls is almost designed to fall over one day. With an arch nothing collapses.”
All I can say is that they certainly look cool!
via turkish press
images via earth home garden
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