PublishedCal Earth Press, March 2012 |
ISBN9781889625058 |
FormatSoftcover, 302 pages |
Dimensions28cm × 21.5cm × 2cm |
With over 700 b&w photos and illustrations, this 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, sustainalbe 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 can guide anyone to learn and teach how to build a home or community.