How to use the earth as a resource
Nader Khalili founded institute was an architect
Wanted to use Natural materials
Speak to societies real needs
Built was 100% earth or 90% earth everything at cal earth
The source of abundance is the earth beneath our feet
Economy of people is the real economy
Things we need in our lives community water housing
Affordable homes and non toxic
Sustainable culture
Water is the next oil. The most sought after resource now. Catch water and direct it into our gardens
Heat the house - inventing and developing ideas
Non profit but have workshops it exists on tuition
Change how we do things
We don't have anything if we don't have relationships
Chiefta Khalili - Naders daughter -
Nov 5, 2013
They don't use the word dirt, only use the word earth. Rumi quote -
- polypropylene Bags and barbed wire
- 2 non profits use this
- u.n says not economically sustainable
- 1995 started cal earth
- only thing not tested is persistent humidity
- cool in the summer
- and can have a heater
- emergency village - basic
- straw and mud plaster over bag are used to build inside
- earth cement and water
- apse - some dome connected to a bigger dome
- reptile balls - bio mimicry - smooth plaster cracks, reptile balls don't crack because the space between them they crack.
- rumi - what u fear most defines ur value
- electricity underground - running thru pipe windows
- weather fire and earthquake resistant
- Eco dome - kitchen, bathroom $9,000
- triple vault - open rectangular rooms. Khalili didn't like hallways
- wind scoop
- Rumi dome - hagens brick factory had 50,000 reject bricks and gave it to Khalili for free. Because if the hard surface sound is like a speaker in the middle. If there weren't holes in the walls it would be deafening.
- windows huge expense - double pane
- arch makes the structure stable
- Mars 1 - Khalili worked with NASA - soil on the moon has a high Silica content, Velcro Adobe (clay coiled up in dome). used 50 lb rice queen bags in mars 1
- fill bags with earth filled with coffee cans
- brick arch making - shims hold it up
Flat ground underneath you
External elements - be aware - wind
- can buy educational blueprint $500 on their website
