你可能会看到上面的《七又七》,然后想“第一批在哪里?”没关系……我们正在做一件在博客世界里有点不寻常的事情:在另一个博客上为一篇文章写续集。
Not quite a year ago, Brian Clark Howard atThe Daily Greendid a post onunusual green buildingsthat includedtree housesandEarthshipsas well as renovated missile silos and churches. After having that post brought to my attention, and briefly discussing it with Brian, I thought I’d do a follow-up… because their are all sorts of interesting buildings out there made from reused, recycled and natural materials.
I was particularly interested in this topic because I’d just gotten back from the Dancing RabbitEcovillage,他们对重用有敏锐的眼光……所以我将从你可以看到的几个例子开始。
1. The reused school bus
This house caught my attention when I first visited DR late last summer… a stripped-down school bus with a greenhouse on the south side (for help with winter heating as well as growing plants), and an earth berm on the north side to create more insulation.
Turns out a number of people have given this a shot: there even a project up atInstructablesthat gives you some tips forconverting a school bus. Keep in mind that this kind of home is best suited for people of smaller stature: even at my slightly less-than-average height, I’d probably be stooping a lot.
2. The mud house
Mud’s not exactly correct… the house above, built by DR resident andsustainablog contributor ziggy, is made ofcob, a mixture of earth and straw. ziggy created a blog dedicated to buildingthe cob house, and you can see the processstep by step.
Interested in learning more about this very old building material? The Natural Building Network will be holding acob building workshopthis summer, and Dancing Rabbit hassustainable building jobsthat involve learning about cob and other natural building materials.
3. Recycled junk cars
Rob Boydstun got into home building because he realized that his metal works business (which built commercial car carriers) likely wasn’t going to survive the economic downturn on its own. Still, he didn’t take a particularly easy route:Miranda Homes, the new company he founded, is dedicated to building affordable green homes. Part of the design the new company created involves steel framing for homes… and that steel comes from “thecrushed carcasses of junked vehicles. (About four to six cars per house).”
While an unusual material goes into the house’s frame, the homes themselves are pretty conventional… they’re alsovery green in other ways. Miranda has several dozen photos available on itsFacebook page.
4. Reused Train Cabooses
Find train travel romantic? Several home owner have taken their love of the locomotive to an extreme: they live inrenovated cabooses.
其中最有趣的是:Jim Zon将1921年的阿尔戈马中央铁路车尾改造成威斯康星州科尔法克斯的一个家。He’s gota sitededicated to his renovation, with lots of photos.
5. Reused wine casks
TheHotel de Vrouwe van Stavorenin the Netherlands has put wooden Swiss wine drums to good use: they’ve built four rooms out of them. They’re absolutely gorgeous… take a look atthe photoson the hotel’s web site.
6. Recycled sewer pipes
Not far away, in Austria, thePark Hoteloffers lodging in converted sewer pipes. I’m guessing those thick concrete walls keep out the weather well… and if you want to try this out, the hotel even offers a “pay as you wish” system: “everyone leaves in the Paybox his suite per night € an amount he can afford and with which he is willing to support our project.”
7. Recycled newspaper
谈论升级!Mechanical engineer Elis F. Stenman startedThe Paper House作为一种爱好,但对使用这种材料非常感兴趣,他甚至用它做家具。Now nearly 90 years old, the house still stands in Rockport, Massachusetts, and isopen to visitors.
Paper’s still used as a building material, though:papercrete, made with paper, water, and other additives such as Portland cement or even flyash, is strong and durable.
Keep the ball rolling here…Brian and I certainly haven’t covered all the homes and buildings out there made from unusual materials. What can you add to the list?
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Taylensays
如果我真的能住在一个旧的下水管道里我就好了…不过我喜欢这种热情!haha