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Looking for the cure to the common home? You’ll find all the inspiration you’ll ever need about unique, handmade and offbeat shelter in Lloyd Kahn’s newest book, Home Work: Handbuilt Shelter. Packed with 1,100 photos and 300 illustrations of dwellings, domes, houses and huts from all points around the globe, this remarkable 245-page book is about the eclectic materials used to make these homes and the eccentric dreamers and doers that built them. Kahn brings them all to life.Home Work tells the stories of buildings made by people who chose — sometimes out of necessity — to build homes for themselves using local and recycled materials rather than relying upon the standardized products of modern society.Take Kelly and Rosana Hart’s “earthbag-papercrete” house in Colorado, for example.
This intrepid couple constructed their house from plastic bags filled with crushed volcanic rock to form walls with excellent insulative values. The bags then were covered with a low-maintenance exterior shell called “papercrete” (a mixture of paper and Portland cement) that the couple says will never rot or be damaged by moisture.Throughout the book, the reader connects with Kahn’s love of what might simply be called “great buildings,” the kinds that have been carefully crafted and that stand in dramatic contrast to the typical cookie-cutter house. His passion is to seek out that which is well-made and unusual. The yurts of Bill Coperthwaite in Maine are another case in point. Coperthwaite, who holds a Harvard doctorate in education, recognized the “folk genius in the design of the traditional Mongolian yurt” and created fantastic multistory, tapered-wall yurts using designs that reduce the required building skills to a minimum, while still producing a beautiful, inexpensive and permanent shelter.At first glance, Home Work may appear to focus on 1960s- and ’70s-inspired buildings, but a closer look reveals much more.
A large part of the book is dedicated to traditional buildings clearly inspired by earlier eras. Timber-frame structures, classic barns, old ranches, riverside homes and other houses from Utah to Nova Scotia all are represented, just to name a few. Home Work documents the link between that which is traditional and that which is modern, countercultural and innovative.Of the three decades of travel and photo-taking this book documents, Kahn spent a good portion of it in the United States, where he sometimes encountered the run-down shacks and shanties on the High Plains, and poverty-stricken areas of the Deep South and Southwest. What he found were homes built from the low-cost materials that could be scraped together by struggling Dust Bowl farmers, desert dwellers and sharecroppers to defend against their sometimes-harsh environments. If there is one unifying theme in this disparate patchwork of homes, it’s the use of local, recycled materials to create inexpensive shelter. The hut at right was inspired by an authentic Mongolian yurt and a Native American sweat lodge, built using pliable wooden branches for support and old potato sacks for cover. The greenhouse was made with old glued-together auto windshields.
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In parts of China, the most ubiquitous building material is bamboo, which forms the majority of this stunning treehouse. In North America, the iconic tipi’s light ecological footprint and warm allure still make it an inexpensive form of nomadic shelter. In the Pacific Northwest, Ianto Evans built a quaint cottage and earthy homestead just as eco-friendly as a tipi “by taking the ground from under your feet and turning it into a building.” His home is built from wood and cob — a mixture of clay, sand and straw. Money-Saving Tips in Every Issue!At MOTHER EARTH NEWS, we are dedicated to conserving our planet's natural resources while helping you conserve your financial resources. You'll find tips for slashing heating bills, growing fresh, natural produce at home, and more.
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