This mini earthship-style cabin is built with recycled tires and glass bottles, cob, and a gorgeous green roof. It's a 1-room cabin so the bedroom, kitchen, and dining room are all in one open concept space. The bathroom is the only thing that is separate from the living area.
While this micro cabin design looks a lot like an earthship, the design does not include all 6 principles of an earthship, as outlined by Michael Reynolds: https://www.earthshipglobal.com/#
This cabin is indirectly powered with solar, it's built with reclaimed and natural materials, and it has a passive solar design. It does not collect rainwater, produce food or treat grey and black water.
We visited this green building during a recent trip to portugal and were excited to see such a neat space surrounded by inspiring projects and other structures. It has a natural pool/pond, trails, a yurt, a straw bale home, a yoga studio, dogs, chickens, horses, and a cat, as well as extensive gardens and fruit trees. A beautiful permaculture space/eco-resort to visit for sure!
If you would like to learn more about this mini earthship, check out:
https://glampinghub.com/portugal/lisbon/colares/vacation-rental-sintra-portugal/
Quinta Ecosophia:
https://www.quintaecosophia.com/
Reforestation Project:
https://mossy.earth/
Beatroot vegan food:
http://beatroot.pt/
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Editing Credits:
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Photos of the earthship cabin build provided by Denise from Quinta Ecosophia
This is in Portugal very good ?
Very nice set-up.
3:30. Solar panel connected to the national grid is a perfect idea for a summer house. It probably provides more energy to the grid than the house needs (perhaps).
If the overhang went out another 6-8 ft the Summer sun would be minimized greatly. This one feature would make a huge difference.
Really appreciate your work. Good informations about building out of the box. Thank you both.
Salute to your idealogy, salute to your beautiful eye’s ma’am…
It looks like a dirty hole in the ground…
An earthship is self supporting, this shack is not.
Perfect size for 1 couple! But wheres the connected greenhouse?
In my opinion, if you have access to a grid that has a non renewable source, that’s the best way to have solar pannels. It’s simpler, you never run out of power and you don’t need batteries (which you have to replace every 6 years… not really ecofriendly).
This stove is called “quematutti” ( burn all). cause all can be burned in there.
Lovely, ,lovely, lovely!!!!
This is a true dream house!
Just a mud shack.
How much did this cost ?? 50000$ just guessing.i did this .its cute.
Wonderful! A murphy-style bed on the flat section of wall where the dresser and red chair are would be perfect. Then you’d have room for a sofa.
I love the idea of a community like that. Thanks for the tour.
Lovely! Thanks for sharing!
I think those walls would not stop any off-gassing whatsoever.