How To Build An Earthship Roof

Appalachian gothic architecture made from recycled pallet wood is by no means the only diy housing option using reclaimed materials.

How to build an earthship roof. You build a wooden frame onto a foundation of pounded tires setting it at the proper angle and securing it to the main structure roof with really heavy duty rafters. Once you put in the effort and care to build an earthship house the house will take care of you. According to the think green building glossary an earthship is defined as a building system using tires as permanent forms for rammed earth passive solar design rain catchment and other integrated systems to create low impact energy efficient structures. As you can see we even managed to get it to look somewhat like the diagram.

The front wall is framed and it is starting to look more and more like a house. As of today july 1 we ve decked a portion of the roof and have been roughing in electrical. For my tour i was equipped with a big list of questions to ask them to help me prepare for building my own earthship. Since starting our earthship.

These were some words of encouragement offered to me by london earthship owners connie and craig after a visit and home tour with them near london ontario in november 2019. Actually the construction of the face is fairly straightforward. In fact treehugger has featured countless posts on earthships. Reasons for building an earthship.