Team:Habitation/Habitation Low Density
Low density habitation
A simple way to build a sustainable village is using earth-ships. These are essentially of-the-grid houses combining all elements of power generation, heating and water in one house. This has the supplementary advantage of not needing any infrastructure of power, water and waste distribution. But a house like this needs enough room for receiving sunlight and other integrated system including the plants needed to process the waste water. Therefor the infrastructure will resemble a classic rural village.
Because of this layout the distances between houses and workplaces (for recycling and fabrication probably) are a sometimes a bit big for walking so cycling is a must as cars too energy intensive. What is possible is the use of small golf-cars or small electric scooters.
Earthships
An earthship is a dwelling designed for of the grid living. It is designed are maximized to
- neesd only the sun for heating
- natural air flows for cooling
- capture, filter and reuses rain so no additional water supply is needed
- use solar, wind and batteries to provide enough electricity continuously
- build in green house to provide an amount of food
- build using recycled materials
