Green Roof On Earthbag House

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Earthbag construction is an amazingly sustainable building method and has been a popular topic for years in the off grid community. 50 videos play all mix off grid underground sandbag roundhouse with reciprocal green roof youtube earthbag house project off grid living duration. The unique cob cottage is on mayne island bc and is the 4th most wish listed proper. We chose to build an earthbag house.

I think he generally does living roofs which wouldn t work as well to collect rainwater. For those new to this concept an earthbag is just as the name implies. This house was custom designed for a client who wanted total concealment by building into a hillside and using living roof and living walls. 18 5 x 39 description.

Green roofshave several positive aspects. They also requested minimal environment impact and lowest possible cost off grid design. A bag filled with earth. Posts about green roof written by owen geiger.

Then i d put a reciprocal frame roof on it. Living in the philippines 27 130 views. May 3 2016 explore angie miller s board house colors for green roof on pinterest. They retain water from.

A play on words this small house has green walls and a living roof. The bags are stacked to create buildings of various sizes and shapes quickly and relatively. Plant covered buildings are very practical because they can save materials and finish work reduce heating and cooling loads oxygenate air around the building as well as provide habitat for wildlife buffer noise etc. The safest roof type for earthbag if you are a beginner the safest most foolproof roof to stick on your earthbag house is a flat or skillion pitched roof utilising horizontal joists running the length of the building the joists act as a type of grid that pulls the structure together and prevents the walls falling outwards what s more if you ve built a smallish round house you won.

Green roof living roof. Look up tony wrench and you ll see some youtube videos of a sweet looking roof that is made with logs and scrap wood. If i was building an earthbag house first it would be round or ameba shaped.