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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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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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,…
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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…
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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…
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