This archive houses the foundational R&D and original architectural blueprints of Maverick Mansions. These core dossiers establish the primary engineering principles, early biomimetic structural theories, and baseline methodologies that form the bedrock of our Type 1 Civilization infrastructure.
The Dimetrodon’s Sail: Strategic Thermal Bridging and Decoupled Hydronics The Structural Parasite: Unintentional Thermal Bleed The modern construction industry bleeds money and energy through a catastrophic architectural oversight known as thermal bridging. Standard development practices routinely pour external concrete slabs, sidewalks, and patios directly against the primary foundation of the home. Because concrete and steel…
The Monolithic Skin: Bypassing Portland Cement with Biomimetic Envelopes The Industrial Flaw: The Concrete and Fiberglass Addiction The modern construction industry is dangerously addicted to Portland cement and synthetic fiberglass insulation. This addiction is a catastrophic failure of both economics and building science. Portland cement is highly energy-intensive to produce, expensive, and inherently brittle. It…
The Termite’s Chimney: Biomimetic Cooling and the Bernoulli Paradigm The Desert Architect: The Flaw in Mechanical Air Conditioning In the scorching heat of the African savanna, where surface temperatures regularly exceed 120°F (49°C), the compass termite builds towering mounds that remain a constant, perfectly comfortable 87°F (30°C) inside. They do not use electrical grids, compressors,…
The Cheetah’s Fridge: Bypassing the Chemical Battery Bottleneck with Hydronic Thermal Mass The Predator’s Logic: The Flaw in Modern Solar Storage In the wild, a cheetah expends a massive amount of energy to secure its prey during the heat of the day. But the cheetah doesn’t eat the entire kill at once. To protect its…
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What about a sustainable farm? In the 80’s people didn’t “get” computers. Tv, radio dominated everything. Now they are dinosaurs. YouTube, Snapchat, Instagram is the new Abc, Cnn, Bbc. In the food industry it will happen the same. The new big thing: the Facebook, the Snapchat, the Pinterest will be meal-worms, crickets, bugs, fish, snails,…
Read about the walipini and about the aquaponics system first. The final “product” won’t look like this. This video is just a quick sketch about the main idea. We show just 3-4 simplified ideas to demonstrate the concept. The underground lake lives in a symbiosis with the house. It is home to hundreds or thousands…
Arduino and raspberry pi are small computers that cost roughly between 30-60$. There are similar products on the market but we won’t mention them here. When we mention Arduino in this website we mean this and similar products. You can attach various sensors, controllers and robotics to them. The sky is the limit. I have…
Fire. Using these materials (mentioned in the website) your house will ranked in the best and second best category related to fire safety. Your family would be safe. Additional pumps that use the underground lake’s water will be an extra measure to extinguish fire. The water could be pumped inside of the building, or in…
Rammed Earth might look like the “ultimate luxury” however it’s made from earth. The Chinese wall was made from this material. Rammed earth resist thousands and thousands of years. It’s made from sand, gravel and clay. In the past they added stabilizers like lime and animal blood. Nowadays the most frequent stabilizers used are lime,…
Place of warmth. Walipini means “place of warmth”. In the Andes/Bolivia was quite popular to grow vegetables in these constructions. The main idea is simple. You dig a hole in earth and you cover it with glass, nylon or something similar. The sun will heat up the earth during daytime. In the nighttime: the accumulated…
Cables and plumbing. We position most of the cables within the “chimney effect”.This way the electric current that powers the house and the cables for the sensors are safe and sheltered from the environment. It’s quite easy to reposition them in time if need be. It’s like putting the cables on the outside of the…
Like gabion walls these are quite cheap to make and resist time. Read this article to make it cheaper (simplify things). It’s a thermal battery.
This type of walls in bathrooms and furniture is quite difficult to use because of the water vapors (in case of normal houses). In case you build your house after the ideas presented on this website than mold and extra heating bills won’t “occur”. Notice that working with primal materials like stone, wood, metal could…
Quite cheap to make … looks great and resist “time itself”. Read this article to make it cheaper (simplify things). Check the rock walls, the idea is the same. It’s a thermal battery.
Read this article first about security. Chose from the myriad of various sensors and plant a classy hedge. Smart hedge:) Just think about the cost. It will be 1000 times more secure. Seriously, the above-mentioned article first. The hedges maintenance would cost little in the long run. It might last hundreds of years and the…
Shou Sugi Ban is a technique to burn wood. Initially the Japanese used cedar. Cypress, pine, douglas fir, chestnut, oak is also popular alternatives. What’s the catch? After burning it …it will be “immune” of UV rays. Insects and mold won’t attack it. It’s like a desert. Nothing to eat there. I am trying to…
With strawbale I have to admit I have a love hate relationship. It made top 3 on my list however most of the people use it wrong. Except it’s initial price and extraordinary insulating properties everything works against it. It’s one of the riskiest materials to use. Strowbale might rotten easily, molds, mice will live…
Hempcrete is the future of building materials. In a few decades most will build with this material. Hempcrete is all natural and it’s quite strong. Hemp grows way faster than wood. It’s price will outcompete anything in the market. The only problem with is the fallowing. It’s to good. Resist time and it’s insulation properties…
Papercrete is one of the best, if not the best affordable insulations ever invented. There are different recipes for it. The recipe depends on where you want to use it and how. The rule of thumb is generally that you can go to maximum 90% paper and 10% bounding material. This bounding material (the most…
