Emergency Sandbag Shelter and Eco-Village : Manual - How to Build Your Own with Superadobe/earth-bag

by Khalili, Nader; Outram, Iliona

• ISBN13: 9781889625058
• ISBN10: 1889625051
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-06-28
• Publisher: Cal-Earth Pr

Summary

"Emergency Sandbag Shelter" is a must-have manual for every home, as an emergency guide. Now for the first time this book is made available to people around the world by its inventor, award-winning architect Nader Khalili, whose specialty was skyscrapers and who has now dedicated his life to teaching how to build shelter for humanity. The book shows how to use sandbags and barbed wire, the materials of war, for peaceful purposes as the new invention known as Superadobe or earth-bag, which can shelter millions of people around the globe as a temporary as well as permanent housing solution. This affordable, self-help, sustainable, and disaster resistant structural system is a spin off from Khalili's presentation to NASA for habitat on the moon and Mars, which successfully passed rigorous tests for strict California earthquake building codes. This book along with a small library of films and kits can guide anyone to learn and teach how to build a home or community. Cal-Earth, as a nonprofit organization, has an ongoing educational project of a Distance Learning Program, connecting directly from the institute to individuals, schools, NGOs and disaster struck areas in need of shelter around the world, as well as hands-on interactive apprenticeship programs at the institute.