Sunday, December 20, 2009

Alchemist Turns Earth Into Stone, Building the Future for Humans

A new and agitative business has afresh emerged in California and is already creating a cyclone of absorption that extends to the far corners of the globe. Earth Architecture has opened its doors and is now alms acceptable design, architecture and educational casework to California assemblage but this business is about something abundant bigger than just architecture houses... its about able architecture solutions and our charge to actualize beautiful, able housing.

Los Osos, CA -- A new and agitative business has afresh emerged in California and is already creating a cyclone of absorption that extends to the far corners of the globe. Earth Architecture has opened its doors and is now alms acceptable design, architecture and educational casework to California assemblage but this business is about something abundant bigger than just architecture houses... its about able architecture solutions and our charge to actualize beautiful, able housing.

"There is a ascent all-around absorption to use our assets in a way that allowances the accomplished of humanity," said Isaac Horton who founded Earth Architecture. "I accept that architecture with apple is something that makes faculty to a lot of humans but I have to admit, I was afraid to ascertain that we were accepting all-embracing absorption aural alone a few weeks of announcement our web site. People are advice earth-architecture.com into assorted languages. We are accepting hits from about the world, places like India, Peru, Spain, Philippines, Germany, Poland, Finland, Pakistan, Morocco, Italy and New Zealand just to name a few. In fact, alone 50% of our web cartage is from the United States," explained Horton. "The blow is international."

People from about the apple are absorbed in apple architecture because the technology is analogously able abnormally in countries with emergency apartment needs due to ecology disasters. Catholic Relief Services purchased 60 apple brick accomplishment presses afterwards the adverse convulsion in Gujarat, India in 2001. In a year's time they had complete 2,698 houses to aid in the rehabilitation of the area. "We aswell purchased one of these presses so we could account from the analysis able by Auroville, a airy association amid in India who has innovated the antecedent technology alleged CinvaRam." Horton said it was difficult to acceptation the apparatus and the action took about 8 months to get the device. "It was account it admitting and we're aflame to use the technology on a bounded level."

Vice admiral of the PATIWUARE Foundation in Pakistan Mohummad Omar Masood active up to accept added advice from Earth Architecture through the web site. "He is an archetype of anyone absorbed in the advice we are currently compiling. One of our goals is to advice advance apple architecture systems that can be implemented with a minimum of accouterment and we will be publishing this advice as letters that can be broadcast by organizations like UN-Habitat or downloadable pdf's accessible on earth-architecture.com, advisedly accessible to anyone with acceptance to the internet. People like Mr. Masood are already absorbed because of the how-to article acquaint in March about an arising address we accept innovated alleged Earthcrete."

Isaac says that he considers himself an environmentalist although some may altercate back his primary business is architectural development and he advocates the amiable use of portland cement. "To be a acquainted developer is to accept the needs of a growing citizenry and to use our assets to the best of our ability. The adorableness of architecture with apple is two-fold. It's able and it feels good." Horton claims that because apple walls charge to be thicker than added architecture methods, they accept a faculty of accumulation that is agreeable and monolithic. "We use portland adhesive as a adhesive with the apple to authority the walls calm and we feel that while the adhesive uses a acceptable accord of activity to produce, it is an alchemic technology that was invented by the Romans and with it we are in actuality axis the apple into stone. With the accession of adhesive we can body walls that endure for hundreds, even bags of years. All architecture technologies use activity and we feel that by aspersing the aggregate of adhesive used, we can actualize above end after-effects that far beat the expectations of our barter and is still advised sustainable."

Earth walls accommodate thermal mass, slowing calefaction alteration from exoteric to autogenous spaces during the day and from autogenous to exoteric spaces at night. This slowing down of calefaction barter is accepted as the "thermal flywheel effect" and it is one of the primary allowances of active in an apple house. Depending on the location, Earth Architecture may acclaim the accession of insulation in the amount of the wall. This address is accepted as SIREWALL and after-effects in a architecture that stays balmy behindhand of alfresco temperature.

Historically, apple architecture has been acclimated to actualize some of the greatest works of mankind. The Great Wall of China for archetype is abundantly fabricated of earth. The world's oldest earthen architecture still continuing is about 3,300 years old. The Ramasseum, fabricated of adobes, was complete about 1,300 BC in the old city-limits of Thebes. It can still be visited on the bank of the Nile, adverse Luxor.

Earth Architecture is committed to renewing an absorption in apple architecture and they are currently targeting government agencies for accessible works projects and ample bartering applications such as barn amplitude and processing plants complete of rammed earth. "We plan with everyone. But we ambition ample accessible spaces and bartering uses because that is area abiding amount is created. We can body annihilation ample or small, but alone I like the big being because it absolutely shows off the achievability of how this actual can be acclimated to actualize abundant space." California association can aswell account from the advisory workshops accessible which are listed on the web site.

Isaac is aswell alive on publishing a book entitled, "Earth Temples," and hopes to accept the book completed by the end of the year. "I'm talking with publishers now and I'm acquisitive to accept it accessible for auction in 2009." Temple architecture is one aspect of apple architecture that absolutely inspires Isaac. He makes time average his added projects to appointment temples and crop pictures for the book. "I feel something central temples that is altered from added types of spaces. It's like I can feel the affection of the artisan who envisioned the space. I ambition to allotment that activity with others!"

Earth Architecture is amid in Los Osos, California. Anyone analytic for apple architecture and architecture casework can acquaintance Earth Architecture by visiting their web website at www.earth-architecture.com or by calling (805) 534-1676.

isaac horton
earth architecture
http://earth-architecture.com
805 534 1676
info @ earth-architecture.com
1042 santa ynez avenue
los osos california 93402

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