Superadobe Home Build Update - How Have the Structures Progressed in a Year?

Material are cheap it’s the labor that will kill you. If you can’t do it yourself. How many people did they have helping them. You still have to get permits, and engineering.

This is great but what about the Land?????? Meaning you might have to buy a piece of land to built these earth homes!..I will hate to see the government knocking on my earth home in the middle of the night saying we are not supposed to built any homes on the land. Oh wow...I'm just saying , I would love an earth home but what are the protocols???

Love natural building. With all our Forrest areas on fire it's going to take time for the healthy growth we need to come back. Every State needs to embrace and support this type of building so our trees can replenish and our air quality improves. So proud of you for doing this! Our ancestors build well while protecting nature at the same time. Many of these structures still stand the test of time. ❤

Think about the debth of the arch way, you want to keep the sun from baking the door all day and putting windows to catch the winter sun.

Man I want one! Build me one and I'll bring you a solar generator! Woo hoo let's do it!

What's the ambient temp inside these things. Seems like it would be unbearable.

Love the work! 👍🏼 ….. but don’t claim that this was invented by a Jewish man …. Please 👍🏼

Just a suggestion guys. I am a locomotive builder and one thing I learned from locomotives was because of the extreme horse power and conditions of the rail as well as the outside environment and weather sealing the compartments of a locomotive can be nearly impossible. For example, the locomotives we build travel approximately 80 miles an hour roughly top speed and once they are moving they typically have no reason to slow down, they also have tight schedules as many tracks are used to travel in both directions meaning that scheduling and maintaining tight punctuality standards is an absolute must for obvious safety reasons. Nobody wants to be late in a locomotive because if the other locomotive travelling your direction happens to leave early you'd end up with two cities moving 80 mph into each other frequently and head on collisions between to high speed locomotives is a very messy situation. That being said a locomotive must be able to travel at it's normal speed during any time and through any conditions it may face may it be hail snow monsoon tornadoes hurricane lightning uphill downhill negotiate 15 degree radius curves through the most unreachable parts of the country through tunnels and over bridges with clearance tolerances with only an inch or two with very sensitive equipment everything from high voltage extremely high voltage to all categories of electrical wiring and thousands upon thousands of miles of wiring as well as tens of thousands of electrical terminations. These terminations are connected to extremely sensitive equipment alot of which we install using static sensitive protective coverings tools clothing inclean room environments. The vibration alone will rattle any "sealed" situation apart in it's first trip in service and so we do not even attempt to seal and keep the wind dust bugs debris leaves rust water smoke hail mud and every airborne anything you can imagine In between out of these highly sensitive compartments on the locomotives. Then if none of the room cabin compartments or other containers etc are sealed then how do we keep the equipment in an open environment from getting destroyed at 80 mph in a rain storm? Positive pressure. That's it. As long as any compartment can maintain at least 1 lbs. Of positive air pressure within the compartments well then no water or anything else can enter an opening. If you have a small leak or a hole per se in an electrical cabinet then that cabinet absolutely will have a small fan like those found in a desktop computer all the way up to an entire compartment or cabin having a "squirrel cage" style blower motor. Most locomotives within there "fresh air room" have a huge blower motor and a large plenum attached to a main duct that runs under the floor the length of the locomotives with smaller ducts branching out to each and every electrical cabinet throughout the entire loco. And this will constantly supply a source of positive air pressure to each of them and if the compartments has a leak well it's leaking air out with a signature whistle and if it's leaking air out I guarantee nothing is getting in.. even if it was submerged as long as the air pressure exceeded the ambient atmospheric pressure outside of it everything within will be dry and clean as day 1. So just a hint considering i dout no matter what you do to seal your mud hits in that desert you won't be able to keep the dust out. You may want to consider providing each hut with a simple blower motor to provide positive air pressure within your hut and water and dust will never get in 😊

The little domes would best be described as kellia (Κέλλια) monastic cells like those inhabited by eremitic monks. Have you spoken to any desert fathers from St. Antony Coptic monastery in Newberry Springs or farther away?

Still in the desert. Still need a man dress, some goats, and RPK to completely fit in.

For me, living in the desert would be a punishment. But, different strokes…

How do you collect rain water with a dome structure, I don't see any gutters. Thank you.

You guys ever consider building the main rooms bigger yet under ground ?

Yeah...I'll pass. I don't know about some other people, but living on Tatooine isn't my style...I'm half expecting Tusken Raiders to zip by on their speeder bikes or banthas... 🤣🤣🤣

Trying to explain with theirs hands inside the pockets.

Probably a good idea to plant some trees and water them with your grey water to make some windbreaks. Would really help with shade in the summer too

This looks familiar. The longevity and low maintenance are very impressive for these domes. Nice work Rockhopper!!