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Earthship experience: 8 weeks, 650 tires, thousands of pop cans
DONNA HEALY Of The Gazette Staff | Posted: Sunday, February 21, 2010 12:00 am
Tucked into a bluff above the Yellowstone River, an architect known as the "Garbage Warrior" built a home with walls made from cast-off tires and empty soda cans.
The home's south face, an angled wall of glass, rises over a greenhouse bathed in sunlight reflected off the snow-covered hills east of Miles City. Its other three sides are sunk into the hillside.
Last summer, a work crew and volunteers rammed dirt into tires to create 650 steel-belted "bricks," which were stacked in rows, nine tires high.
Empty soda pop cans and beer bottles cemented side by side and covered with adobe mud became the interior walls of the eco-friendly home built by longtime Miles City residents Scott Elder and Karla Lund.
The two-bedroom house, built in eight weeks last summer, is the latest prototype of an Earthship, a form of self-sustained housing built by Taos, N.M., architect Michael Reynolds. Reynolds, a white-haired hippie, was dubbed the "Garbage Warrior" in a documentary film portraying his iconoclastic approach.
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DONNA HEALY Of The Gazette Staff | Posted: Sunday, February 21, 2010 12:00 am
Tucked into a bluff above the Yellowstone River, an architect known as the "Garbage Warrior" built a home with walls made from cast-off tires and empty soda cans.
The home's south face, an angled wall of glass, rises over a greenhouse bathed in sunlight reflected off the snow-covered hills east of Miles City. Its other three sides are sunk into the hillside.
Last summer, a work crew and volunteers rammed dirt into tires to create 650 steel-belted "bricks," which were stacked in rows, nine tires high.
Empty soda pop cans and beer bottles cemented side by side and covered with adobe mud became the interior walls of the eco-friendly home built by longtime Miles City residents Scott Elder and Karla Lund.
The two-bedroom house, built in eight weeks last summer, is the latest prototype of an Earthship, a form of self-sustained housing built by Taos, N.M., architect Michael Reynolds. Reynolds, a white-haired hippie, was dubbed the "Garbage Warrior" in a documentary film portraying his iconoclastic approach.
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Full story here:
http://billingsgazette.co...002e0.html