The home is built mostly underground.
The roof design is optimal for water catchment. A gutter collects rainwater at the roof’s lowest
edge and can be directed into storage tanks.
Smaller sections of walls were filled in with stacked aluminum cans, bottles and concrete mortar.
contractor he is familiar with the
“nauseating
smell
of
new
construction.” A native Alpine
resident, Ashley is grateful one of
her closest childhood friends, who
is unable to enter most homes due
to an extreme chemical sensitivity,
can visit their house with ease.
Will has built houses for most of
his life and states that “Nothing in
the Earthship is straight or
uniform and the dimensional
lumber, concepts, and applications
of typical construction are not
applicable,” which makes working
on his own home always interesting
and unique.
Ashley and Will’s Earthship is
not only a work in progress, it is
where life meets art. n
Windows spread along the south side of the house create a greenhouse effect.
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