Alternative Housing & Energy

Monolithic Domes


3D Printing Houses Videos


Fully-customized, modular solar house is 3D printed prefab

3-D printing buildings of the future

3D printer can build a house in 20 hours
The World's First 3D Printed House Begins Construction

3D printed mud houses will soon be an option in impoverished countries

Shipping Containers

Sea, Shipping Container Cabin, Shelter, Home

10 Prefab Shipping Container Homes From $24k


22 Most Beautiful Houses Made from Shipping Containers

50 Incredible Homes Made Of Repurposed Shipping Containers
Tempo Housing

Industrial Zombie

Home In A Box Blog Spot

How to Buy a Shipping Container
640sqft Solar Powered Shipping Container Cabin with Greenhouse For $25k

How to do every stage of a shipping container house, from foundation to paint to walls to windows

Videos

Grand Designs Revisited

Sheltered Earth Housing

DIY Build an Earthship Home


"Hobbit"-Inspired Shire Home


Pros + Cons of Shipping Container Buildings

Shipping containers recycled into affordable, accessible Utah home
82 Alternative Housing Videos

Tour an Earth-Bermed House in Upstate New York

Energy Efficient? Tornado Proof? Alternative Housing

Cob Houses - Live Debt Free with Sustainable Development

Shipping container family home: building blocks in Redwoods

Building A Shipping Container House An Adventure In Off-Grid Living
Cool Shipping Container Homes, Awesome Homes made from Shipping Containers

"Earthship Biotecture": Renegade New Mexico Architect’s Radical Approach to Sustainable Living

Featured Links

Off The Grid World

The Photon Project
Off The Grid Build

Architectureus/archive

Earth Sheltering

Primary

Earthship Global (image gallery) Earth Homes Now
"Earthship Biotecture": Renegade New Mexico Architect’s Radical Approach to Sustainable Living


Earthship How To Videos

Thermal Wrap and Cooling Tubes An Overview of Footings, Buttresses and Bond Beam

Other Earthships

Allen and Pat Gooch's Earth Ship
Dave Knapp's Earth Ship Journey
Earth Sheltered News
Earth Structures
Earthship (Colorado)
Earthship Biotecture-resources, designs, and workshops
Earthship Dennis and Gerry Weaver's (New Mexico)
Earthship Intern Program
Earthship Landing: Pictures
Earthship Lane Allen and Pat Gooch's
Earthship/Hut page
Earthships For S
ale
Earthships Landing: Pictures Another
Earthships: Useful Overview
The Greater World Earthship Community
Green Home Building: Natural Building Techniques: Earthship
Scott & Janis Derrick's Earth Ship voyage
Vic Cook's Giant Earthship (Indiana)


Financing


How to pay for your dream house


Major Green Building & Alternative Housing Links


The Green Building Professionals Directory

The Sourcebook for Green and Sustainable Building Intentional Communities


Turkey's Underground City


Underground Cities
Cappadocia
Underground Cities of Cappadocia
Cappadocia
Ancient Underground Cities of Turkey
TURKEY'S UNDERGROUND CITIES: Real-world dungeons
Cappadocia
Underground City of Kaymakli, Turkey
Derinkuyu Underground City
Underground Cities


More Alternative and Earth Sheltered, Major, and Other Pages

Houzz
Dwell

Arcosanti

Earth Shelter

Earth Sheltered Life

Weehouse / projects 

Ultimate Secure Home

Oklahoma Terra Dome 

Formworks Building Inc.

A1 Gunite / Monolithic Domes

Texas Earthen Dwelling Structures Association
Polystyrene homes planned for Afghans

Inspiration Green's Earth Sheltered Homes

Eco-business Links / Sustainable Architects

Permaculture Institute of Northern California

Philip Greenspun / Materialism / House Design

3rd Millennium Construction Society (B.C., Canada)

World Changing is a major page regarding alternative dwellings.


Fab Prefab is, like its name implies, about prefabrication options.

Not so big house is a book series that promotes small housing designs.
Wikipedia has an Underground living and an Underground city page.

Great Dreams / Creating Community is a great alternative living links page

Trendir's MODERN HOUSE DESIGNS: Underground Homes and the glass wall house.


Earth-Sheltered Houses gives practical advice on getting started and a great deal more.

Gimme Shelter or For Sale: Missile Silo Restored As Luxury Home (Home's Bidding Begins At $2.1M On eBay) or...

The World's Only Missile Silo Luxury Home with Runway or, go to their home page at missile bases.


The Construction Department of the Spanish Technological School has the Centre of Documentation on Underground Building and Planning and one of the best underground related links pages.

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