How To Build An Earthship Roof

The front wall is framed and it is starting to look more and more like a house.

How to build an earthship roof.

July 1 2010 marks canada day and the official start of year two building our earthship. Once you put in the effort and care to build an earthship house the house will take care of you. For my tour i was equipped with a big list of questions to ask them to help me prepare for building my own earthship. Actually the construction of the face is fairly straightforward.

Reasons for building an earthship. 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. As you can see we even managed to get it to look somewhat like the diagram. 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.

Greetings from the darfield earthship in the north thompson valley of british columbia canada. 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. Since starting our earthship. As of today july 1 we ve decked a portion of the roof and have been roughing in electrical.