Earthbag House Plans
Owen Geiger over at Earthbag House Plans has been busy. He has posted the preliminary designs for about 77 plans for earthbag homes available on his newest website.
An earthbag home is essentially a home made from the dirt under your feet. It’s scooped up and placed in bags, like old grain bags. The bags are then laid up like bricks. You can build strait walls or curved. You can even build domes. It’s probably the fastest and easiest way to build walls and the best part… it’s about as cheap as… well dirt. To learn more about building with earthbags visit Earth Bag Building. Here is a sample of what you’ll find:
Photo credit to the people at earthbagbuilding.wordpress.com and earthbagplans.wordpress.com.
Correction: I’m not sure how I got it in my head that Owen’s plans were free, sorry for any confusion. He is working on an ebook and the house plans he’s posting will fill that ebook. So for now, let them act as inspiration for your own earthbag home dreams.
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Owen’s plans can also be bought at my husband’s website dreamgreenhomes.com — at least some are there.
We used to live with Owen in our earthbag house in Colorado and he is incredibly creative and detailed.
Thanks Zana! More the merrier. I’ll take a look.
Hi, im very much interested with this kind of architecture and would very much like to own one primarily because because its easy to build and light on the budget too.
For a while, dome houses created quite a stir but eventually died down here in the Philippines. Sure wish, there are still contractors around here to help me.
more power to you always!
Earthbag building project coming up! I gotta build one of these.