Interior garden area

Taos, New Mexico The Ultimate in Green Buildings. Thermal, solar heating and cooling, solar and wind electricity, contained sewage treatment, catchwater, recycled materials. earthship.com

This is where i worked my first day. Interior walls made of cans and concrete.

Taos, New Mexico The Ultimate in Green Buildings. Thermal, solar heating and cooling, solar and wind electricity, contained sewage treatment, catchwater, recycled materials. earthship.com

Ceiling in the main garden area.

This is where i worked my first day. South facing windows of the house - used to let sun in to heat the entire place.

This is the storage shed for the site.

Ceiling in the main garden area. Birdies living up there.

This old GMC just needs a bit of work to hit the highway again

Earthship (sustainable home) at Earthship Biotecture in Taos, New Mexico

This is where i worked my first day. Main hallway of the house. South facing windows of the house - used to let sun in to heat the entire place.

September 6, 2024 - Our next stop was a bonus stop not listed on our itinerary. "The Earthship is an off-grid home invented by Taos Architect Michael Reynolds. Earthships are built out of recycled materials like earth-rammed tires, cans, and bottles, and the roof harvests water and recycles that water multiple times. Earthships also grow food, treat their own sewage, and collect power from the sun and wind.

The Visitor Center building is a fully functioning earthship designed to provide education about Earthship Biotecture. You will be greeted at the front desk by one of our friendly staff members who will provide you with some helpful information before beginning your self-guided tour. You will begin by walking through the greenhouse where you will learn about different functions of the building and experience the plentiful diversity of plants. At the end of the greenhouse you will enter a video viewing room where you will find a few videos that are on a loop which lasts about 10 minutes. The next room will be a slideshow viewing room where you can see photographs of the thousands of earthships around the world. This includes earthship humanitarian projects, personal homes, primary schools, and much more (about 15 minutes). You will then walk through the systems hallway to learn about and view our Water Organizing Module and our Power Organizing Module. You will then walk through our gallery (see gallery description below). There are two pathways available outside. One pathway takes you up to see our rainwater catchment system on the roof. The other pathway is south of the Visitor Center across the driveway where you will find ropes and arrows that guide you around the outside of a few other buildings, including the first Earthship that was built on this property!" Previous text from: earthship.com/visit/

Interior can wall.

Placing the vigas.

Taos, New Mexico The Ultimate in Green Buildings. Thermal, solar heating and cooling, solar and wind electricity, contained sewage treatment, catchwater, recycled materials. earthship.com

Entrance from interior garden area to the living area.

This is where i worked my first day. Soft drink cans and concrete make up the interior, non-load bearing walls.

Five of us carried two logs to the top of the building for the viga. Yeah, that was fun. The rest are going to be place by crane.

Wall catches water. Spout on the side lets the water run out.

Five of us carried two logs to the top of the building for the viga. Yeah, that was fun. The rest are going to be place by crane.

One of the bedrooms.

This is where i worked my first day. Earth filled tire walls with concrete and cans filling up the spaces.

This is where i worked my first day. View of the outside of the closet.

Earthship Biotecture - Taos County, New Mexico. Driving around New Mexico- Great Pacific Northwest Move 2013. Photos from Thursday, 19 September 2013. (c) 2013 - photo by Leaf McGowan, Eadaoin Bineid, Thomas Baurley, Technogypsie Productions (www.technogypsie.com/photography/). Purchase rights and/or permissions to use can be obtained at site listed here. To follow the adventure, visit www.technogypsie.com/chronicles/. To read reviews visit www.technogypsie.com/reviews/.

This is where i worked my first day. View of the inside of the closet.

Second room. I'm not sure what this is going to be.

Five of us carried two logs to the top of the building for the viga. Yeah, that was fun. The rest are going to be place by crane.

This is where i worked my first day. Exterior, load bearing walls made of tires filled with dirt and covered with concrete.

Interior mud plastering.

Vigas and framing of main hallway.

Taos, New Mexico The Ultimate in Green Buildings. Thermal, solar heating and cooling, solar and wind electricity, contained sewage treatment, catchwater, recycled materials. earthship.com

This is where i worked my first day. View of the space between the closet and the tire wall.

This is where i worked my first day. Tire and can walls.

This is where i worked my first day. Tire and can walls.

Side entrance.

Placing the vigas.

September 6, 2024 - Our next stop was a bonus stop not listed on our itinerary. "The Earthship is an off-grid home invented by Taos Architect Michael Reynolds. Earthships are built out of recycled materials like earth-rammed tires, cans, and bottles, and the roof harvests water and recycles that water multiple times. Earthships also grow food, treat their own sewage, and collect power from the sun and wind.

The Visitor Center building is a fully functioning earthship designed to provide education about Earthship Biotecture. You will be greeted at the front desk by one of our friendly staff members who will provide you with some helpful information before beginning your self-guided tour. You will begin by walking through the greenhouse where you will learn about different functions of the building and experience the plentiful diversity of plants. At the end of the greenhouse you will enter a video viewing room where you will find a few videos that are on a loop which lasts about 10 minutes. The next room will be a slideshow viewing room where you can see photographs of the thousands of earthships around the world. This includes earthship humanitarian projects, personal homes, primary schools, and much more (about 15 minutes). You will then walk through the systems hallway to learn about and view our Water Organizing Module and our Power Organizing Module. You will then walk through our gallery (see gallery description below). There are two pathways available outside. One pathway takes you up to see our rainwater catchment system on the roof. The other pathway is south of the Visitor Center across the driveway where you will find ropes and arrows that guide you around the outside of a few other buildings, including the first Earthship that was built on this property!" Previous text from: earthship.com/visit/