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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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Learn about how to buy the picture perfect view with little money. Take huge advantage by picking the right terrain. The real gold is in the negatives. Find out why. Save 30% on the initial investment. Save big on the long run. In case of: failure, changes or pricey repairs … you’ll save tens of…
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Colonizing Mars How to colonize Mars Pdf version. Neurons. Imagine a city … like a living organism. For start … we will start with the “cells”. And will build it up to a complex system. A system that relies on modularity, safety, predictability. A conservative approach. In spite of being modular and predictable … it…
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Tunnels are predictable and scalable. Keeping it narrow at first … and when technology advances we can go wider and wider. As an example: building 200m wide domes instead would be gambling in a way. It would hold back economy. Smaller projects / modularity can help us to advance with literally tens of thousands…
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Energy & Infrastructure Odd way to get electricity. Fusion and similar advanced technologies are not within our reach for now. Unboxing it like an IKEA furniture is highly unlikely. In case of a malfunction: shipping a simple “chip” would take months. Best case. Thinking of a centralized construction with “thousands upon thousands” of trained elite…
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Energy source Thin metal sheets and thin cables. Sent from Earth in the beginning … then manufactured on Mars. This design can “grab” the wind quite well. Almost no materials needed. Lack of “gravity” and extreme winds would let us go with even a taller … and lighter design than on this example. …
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Tunnels In time technology advances. We will be able to dig wider and wider. Imagine parallel, multi-level 3d interconnected framework built up from tunnels. The possibilities are endless. A sketch to show the main idea. We’ll zoom into them on the next page. For now, just notice the scale. Within relatively small openings we can…
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Food | the tunnel s A mega-project to mimic nature Biosphere 2 didn’t worked out on Earth. Unfortunately, dozens upon dozens of unpredicted problems appeared. Inhabitants needed to walk out of the sealed enclosure. We can’t risk with projects like this on Mars. We want to avoid unpredictability. The lack of a powerful Sun,…
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Socio cultural. The more we repeat an idea /construction the more cheaper and accessible it becomes. This so-called receptiveness opens the doors for millions. Therefore by definition the more chaotic untamed and undistinguishable it becomes, if it makes sense. We go wider and wider. No need to reinvent the wheel from scratch every given time.…
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“How to colonize Mars?” Ideas about: how to colonize the red planet. How to colonize Mars Pdf version. Read the article Read the article Read the article Read the article Read the article Read the article Read the article Read the article
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blueprints | intro Blueprints and tutorial with the best of the best, easy to implement ideas about how to build premium luxury houses under 5k / room. It can be any size, shape, style and form. On the homepage you’ll be able to see all of the additional benefits as well. few tricks we…
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blueprints | structure Let’s start with the structure. Houses under 5k / room. Within this particular design we use lots of glazing. As a hint … it’s not glass. Meanwhile we have closed, insulated portions as well. We show the principles, engineering as a solution. The form and shape itself is irrelevant in a way.…
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Houses engineered to love the most extreme weather conditions like: waves, tornadoes, earthquakes, never ending rains & constant blizzard. Building cost is roughly 2-7k / room. Check out the free blueprint.
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blueprints | welding vs screws? Credits to my father here. Basically I re-engineered the whole house because of it. He nailed it thinking about this idea. Let’s see the benefits. Welding or using screws? We really like the idea of using screws because you don’t need a team on site that has all…
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blueprints | foundations Foundations here it’s like dating. You can’t tell a hot woman or boy what you want. Everybody would play offended. So we are running the circles 🙂 We don’t need foundations here or its symbolical. Like literally. However I force myself to draw a foundation. Like asking about childhood dreams on…
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