Cardboard Bale House
You’ve probably seen straw bale homes, but have you every heard of a cardboard bale home? This was news to me, and seems like a clever way to reuse refuse; but I think I would stucco mine.
Subtle Subterranean House
This house isn’t tiny but it is an interesting approach that could be downsized to provide an interesting underground tiny home. The view from inside would be virtually non-existant but it would provide incredible privacy.
Village in Colombia
One of my regular readers, Dav, often spots great stories in the forum of Adventure Rider, a website dedicated to motorcycle. This time the story is of a Canadian rider passing through Colombia who meets some incredible people living very much in harmony with their natural environment.
It’s always inspiring and humbling to be reminded that those living most simply are also often living most sustainably. It really makes me question the definitions of advanced and primitive. I mean if we’re all so smart and advanced why haven’t we learned to live sustainably? But I digress…
The part of the story I’m linking you to here is focused on how the thatched roofs are constructed by the people in this particular village. But I suspect you could end up spending a lot of time exploring the photos and stories on the many pages of this one single forum thread. Thanks again for the great tip Dav!
Lamboo Studio Project
The true sustainability of bamboo is sometimes questioned by environmentalists, but the design of this little house is so incredible I had to share it with you. It’s purpose seems to be to illustrate how the Lamboo brand product can be used to create sustainable buildings. Lamboo is architectural and structural bamboo.
How To Build A Shed Office
Here’s a great time lapse video that shows how a tiny stick-built building goes together. It nicely illustrated how little building material is needed and how few steps are really needed to provide a basic structure. I first saw this on Shedworking.
Modern Hobbit House
The folks at fair companies have been putting together many great videos, including some that feature tiny houses. This video shows a 150 square foot tiny cob house being built by interns at North Carolina’s Pickards Mountain Eco-Institute.
Cobworks
Cobworks, located in British Columbia, builds low cost structures from natural and local materials while advocating a spirit of cooperation and social responsibility. They also offer workshops and apprenticeships in learning to build with cob.
Not a House… Yet
This is a bit off-topic because this shipping container is a prototype for a collapsable shipping container that folds up for it’s return trip. On the secondary market they would provide an interesting shipping container to build a house from.
Earthbag Glorieta
Kelly Hart posted the story behind the earthbag house that’s featured in the header of his blog, Earthbag Building Blog. It’s a Glorieta, a glorified gazebo of sorts, that was built during a workshop back in 2003 in Crestone, Colorado. Local materials, including the dirt around the house, was used to construct this little building.
Tiny Dome in Terlingua, Texas
Terlingua, Texas is a remote part of southwest Texas near the Mexican border. Pictured here is a tiny dome structure currently under construction. The blog that is recording the construction story is also filled with interesting ways of adapting to such an extreme desert region and living very close to the edge.
