I was checking out some earthship videos and saw this one about a New Zealand earthship style home that's much smaller than the standard earthship, but had a design feature I'd like to consider.
We had originally intended to create a loft, but we were thinking more along the lines of adding the loft to the back half of the yurt-shaped building about 7 ft up to serve as a sleeping area, since there would be the dome-shaped or cone-shaped roof and ceiling, leaving space beneath for play and living.having the south-facing windows only come up to the bottom of that loft.
This design creates more solar gain by adding windows above the gutter line - and it looks fairly easy, using a simple dome/vault design.
Since we'll be using mostly found materials to build, meaning we won't be creating custom shaped windows, we're more likely to create the windows to be more square. We're still working on design in 3D and we'll detail that in a future post. But in the mean time, I found another great video, this one by Michael Reynolds, creator of the earthship, that explains many of the building techniques we'll try to implement using 3D animation
This was another video we found in the same surf that implemented logs off the property to support the roof, which is another option we'd like to consider...
Using logs would save gobs of money otherwise blown on lumber (not to mention the carbon footprint of having it hauled to our place). On this mini earthship they used it to support the roof, but we could create the dome as our main roof and just use our smaller, under-9-inch-diameter logs to support the loft. Shims could be used from other wood scraps to level up the flooring, if we even wanted it level. But then, flooring is overrated sometimes.
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