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Type Ecoladrillo
Earthship
Location Haiti
Status Deployed
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The earthship living space was built at Haiti Communitere as a response to the 2010 earthquake. It serves as a demonstration for how homes can be built from waste material like tires, plastic bottles, and rubble from the earthquake. The base of the earthship is made with tires stacked seven high within the walls. Above the tires are the plastic bottle walls. The dome roof was made with steel bars along with with shredded cardboard and styrofoam in rice bags and plastic bags for insulation. The earthship incorporates concepts like temperature regulation, solar energy, sewage treatment, upcycled materials, water harvesting, and food production. A solar panel charges a battery, which provides the necessary energy for the earthship living space. The other mentioned concepts are discussed under the images in the gallery. For an animated explanation of the process please see the #Videos below. The total project cost was about USD$4000, and it took around 20 people 10 days to construct the entire structure with pre-prepared materials. The structure used about 10,000 plastic bottles, and just under 100 tires that would have otherwise remained in the waste stream.

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The first video explains the design and some of the construction process for the earthship structure. The second video provides a view of the wall from inside the Earthship structure. The wind blowing through the trees outside causes the light to flicker through the bottles.

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Keywords travel internships, alternative building, ecoladrillo, rainwater, food production, water conservation, urban agriculture
SDG SDG11 Sustainable cities and communities
Authors Dominick Triola, Justine Cook
License CC-BY-SA-3.0
Organizations Haiti Communitere
Language English (en)
Translations Spanish
Related 1 subpages, 7 pages link here
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Created October 20, 2014 by Justine Cook
Last modified June 18, 2024 by Felipe Schenone
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