Style of architecture that uses native materials and upcycled materials to build homes.
For the worldview of humanity as the crew of a spacecraft, see Spaceship Earth.
South and East view of an Earthship passive solar homeTypical floorplanEarthship Architecture, Taos, New Mexico
An Earthship is a style of architecture developed in the late 20th century to early 21st century by architect Michael Reynolds. Earthships are designed to behave as passive solar earth shelters made of both natural and upcycled materials such as earth-packed tires. Earthships may feature a variety of amenities and aesthetics, and are designed to withstand the extreme temperatures of a desert, managing to stay close to 70 °F (21 °C) regardless of outside weather conditions. Earthship communities were originally built in the desert of northern New Mexico, near the Rio Grande, and the style has spread to small pockets of communities around the globe, in some cases in spite of legal opposition to its construction and adoption.
Reynolds developed the Earthship design after moving to New Mexico and completing his degree in architecture, intending them to be "off-the-grid-ready" homes, with minimal reliance on public utilities and fossil fuels. They are constructed to use available natural resources, especially energy from the sun and rain water. They are designed with thermal mass construction and natural cross-ventilation to regulate indoor temperature, and the designs are intentionally uncomplicated and mainly single-story, so that people with little building knowledge can construct them. They can be perceived as a realization of the utopia of autonomous housing and sustainable living.[1]
Earthship windows, water barrels, and solar panels
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An Earthship is a style of architecture developed in the late 20th century to early 21st century by architect Michael Reynolds. Earthships are designed...
Earthship Brighton is a self-sustainable building, completed in 2006 and owned by the non-profit Low Carbon Trust, situated in Stanmer Park, Brighton...
States. The show's setting is a huge generational colony spacecraft called Earthship Ark, which following an unspecified accident has gone off course. Centuries...
overflow, causing dangerous hazards, erosive streams and blockages. An earthship drain is water that is collected from impervious surfaces that are channeled...
Holy Smokes Talk to Your Kids About Gangs (2006) Team Sleep (2005) Shred Earthship (2006) Volume 2 (2007) Volthree (2020) In Advance of the Broken Arm (2007)...
Reynolds, inventor of the Earthship style of building, directed by Oliver Hodge. It follows Reynolds and how he developed the Earthship style of building and...
for such an architecture are Phalanstère, Arcology and Garden Cities. Earthships are realizations of the utopia of sustainable living and autonomous housing...
the production companies Lightstorm Entertainment, Digital Domain, and Earthship Productions. In addition to filmmaking, he is a National Geographic sea...
Dallas and moved to Seattle, Washington. In 2012, she was living in an Earthship in New Mexico. More recently, she lived in Las Vegas, New Mexico. Powter...
English-speaking world are Earthships, the brand of passive solar earth shelters sold by Earthship Biotecture. Earthships are concentrated in New Mexico...
passive solar power and other ecotechnologies. Weaver called his home Earthship, the same name given to the design concept pioneered by Reynolds and advanced...
the Abyss April 11, 2003 Distribution only, produced by Walden Media, Earthship Productions, Ascot Elite Entertainment Group, Golden Village, Telepool...
agriculture, sustainable architecture like Earthships and Arcosanti, as well as the maker movement and DIY culture. "Earthships: The sustainable buildings made from...
Putting Waste to Work. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1982. Earthship Biotecture Earthship Biotecture. Mar 2007 Warmke, Annie & Jay. "Building a Vaulted...
by Jeehun Hwang Production companies Walt Disney Pictures Walden Media Earthship Productions Distributed by Buena Vista Pictures Distribution Release date...
1970s+ Interactive architecture 2000+ Sustainable architecture 2000+ Earthship 1980+ (Started in US, now global) Green building 2000+ Natural building...
built an earthship inspired earthbag house in Utah and Morgan Caraway of Sustainable Life School is building a house that incorporates earthship design...
the actual fill-in structure (or walls) of a building, as is done with earthships. Tin cans have not been around for a long time, and neither have their...
old tires: A garden using tires". backwoodshome.com. 22 March 2006. "'Earthships' in the Desert Save Owners Cash". ABC News. 30 December 2010. "Five Uses...
(before it needs to be purified again, which can also be done in-situ). Earthships often use such a setup. Also available are modern shower heads that help...
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2011. Retrieved 19 October 2018. "Earthship – Codes and Laws". Archived from the original on 12 December 2013. "Earthship – Media Resume for Michael E. Reynolds"...
the seed for three more novels which revolved around the crew of the Earthship Streaker (the Uplift Storm Trilogy). It joins the ranks of double-winners...
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