We are building in the Greater World Earthship Community here in Taos, New Mexico. This project is with our wonderful Field Study Earthship Academy Students. FIELD STUDYStudents receive credit towards this requirement by participating in an official Earthship Biotecture Field Studies project. Field Study opportunities are intended to help further student’s knowledge of hands-on building […]

The new ENCOUNTER model Earthship is continuing to evolve and we will be building its latest version in Taos, New Mexico this spring/summer. It is meant to function as well as the very successful global model but cost 30% less. Staging images of the Encounter Earthship Design. Earthship Biotecture is building now, August – October, 2020. This Earthship […]

Studio, One Bed, Two bed, Three Bed. Off-grid, zero fossil-fuels – all modern amenities. Solar Electricity, Catch Water, Contained Waste Water Treatment, Passive Solar, Thermal Dynamics. Modern Appliances and Modern Living. Clothes washer and dryer. Electric cooking (can have natural gas or liquid propane). Printed Encounter Construction Drawings are available. $400 – $600

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mp4hal0A58g Last Tire Work, Door Boxes and Cistern Pads

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66ZLW_BaIZA finishing tire work burial thermal wrap frontface concrete connection

greywater planter digout frontface foundation details last few courses of tire work

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_XP1FelyEI Frontface tire foundation. Pound these tires with gravel, super tight. Check entire structure, that all walls rise level. Detail water tube to be connected to the cisterns and feed the Water Organizing Module. Use pipe for openings in foundation for waste water lines.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Soxs30V1fh8 Start the thermal wrap insulation when the fifth tire course is pounded. As the tire work goes up, be sure to use strong lines to keep the tire walls straight. Be sure to check the 1.5″ batter per course. A ‘squishy tire’ will most likely be needed. Watch this video to see how to […]

Bottom course is leveled in. First two courses use 3/4″ gravel to pound with. Use plastic in bottom of tires of first two courses. Perforate with holes. Use a builder’s level to ‘shoot-in’ either side of the building as the walls go up. Make sure everything is level. video live March 18, 9am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tarE2DcPjk Pounding tires correctly, achieve proper compaction. batter tires 1.5″ per course so the tire wall slightly leans into the earth berm. cooling tubes are set with their final angle and locked into the tire walls. cistern tubes are installed to go through the tire walls.   video live March 19, 9am

Start with a corner of the building, we are starting with the north-east corner. Place a piece of rebar and use construction string. Find the direction the building faces, in the northern hemisphere, a little east of south. Find the east-west dimension between the inside of the first course of tires. Measure from the middle […]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XL9gNuDWKbI Rough Layout of building Leveling of building pad. Delivery of initial materials. dirt gravel sand/gravel mix cisterns cooling tubes cement concrete sand water cardboard plastic tires hand tools electricity site level