Greenhouse built on our homestead with used windows. The rear wall consists of stabilized* adobe bricks made with a CinvaRam, a compression tool I learned about in the ’60s from the Whole Earth Catalog. There’s a solar-powered fan for cooling and a small solar-powered trickling fountain inside. Note: using old windows like this requires a lot of time puttying and/or painting (but look at the result!)
*1 part cement to 12 parts soil. (The soil came from digging out our 15′ deep garden well.)
About Lloyd Kahn
Lloyd Kahn started building his own home in the early '60s and went on to publish books showing homeowners how they could build their own homes with their own hands. He got his start in publishing by working as the shelter editor of the
Whole Earth Catalog with Stewart Brand in the late '60s. He has since authored six highly-graphic books on homemade building, all of which are interrelated. The books, "The Shelter Library Of Building Books," include
Shelter,
Shelter II (1978),
Home Work (2004),
Builders of the Pacific Coast (2008),
Tiny Homes (2012), and
Tiny Homes on the Move (2014). Lloyd operates from Northern California studio built of recycled lumber, set in the midst of a vegetable garden, and hooked into the world via five Mac computers. You can check out videos (one with over 450,000 views) on Lloyd by doing a search on YouTube:
Now that's cool. (Taking notes)
I linked to this post from my blog. I love this greenhouse, man. very cool. http://www.maybethisdoor.com/2011/03/my-gardening-greenhouse-by-maybe-this.html
A truly Green Greenhouse!!!! Love it
Wauv. Looks just like one I would like to build…. but dont know if my 10 tumbs is able to do it….
LOVE it. Tried to do that about 8 years ago for a coldframe but got stuck in the pre-window acquisition part (i.e. never started). That's just gorgeous.
My ideal greenhouse – love it.
Any chance of more in depth photos etc.