In Morocco, a startup is building affordable homes using a material that is ubiquitous: soil. Eco-dôme Maroc was founded in 2016. It applies local traditions to modern technology to construct ...
No Place Like Dome: BYU Students Design, Build Futuristic Home. CREDITS: Producer: Julie Walker; Videographers: Adam Sanders, Barret Schoenrock; Editors: Adam Sanders, Emily Hyatt For the first time ...
Saint Bernard, Louisiana — Max Begue loves almost everything about living in coastal Louisiana, but hurricane season brings back memories of Katrina in 2005, when his home and neighborhood were washed ...
Local scientists are building an earth-sheltered home in Southwest Florida in an effort to create a sustainable way of life. The earth-sheltered movement has arrived in Southwest Florida. Or at least ...
As a journalist who reports on the environment, when I heard about Kapusod—a southern Philippines getaway built to prove that natural materials can be comfortable and provide climate disaster ...
The challenge is to build homes that can remain intact in any severe weather event, be more energy efficient, be reasonably priced, and be reoccupied shortly after a disaster so that life can go on ...
The Pantheon in Rome has stood for nearly 2,000 years, boasting the largest unreinforced concrete dome on Earth. Many other ...