Inspiration

Nader Khalili, founder of Cal-Earth-institute in California. Born in Iran served as a consultant to the U.N. and has been known as an architect, author and humanitarian.

The Californian institute of earth-art and architecture and his founder architect Nader Khalili stand for earth houses, sandbag homes, ceramic architecture and lunar architecture. This means building from raw, naturally given materials (including the moon’s soil), applying super adobe building systems. Cost effective, solid, weather tight, low cost and eco friendly. To build for example the sandbags home, long or short sandbags are filled with on site earth and arranged in long layers with strands of barbed wire placed between them, to act as both mortar and reinforcement. Stabelizers such as cement, lime or asphalt emulsion might be added.
More information under: www.calearth.org