The Case for Super Adobe

I've been really intrigued lately by Super Adobe home construction. It's dirt cheap because it's mostly dirt (you fill sandbags with dirt and then seal up with concrete).



An 800 square foot house for under ten grand plus the land you put it on. 1600 square feet for about double that. Why stop there? You could have a palace, say 3200 square feet, a music studio, workshop, garage and ample living quarters, kitchen and the rest for less than what I owe on an 1800 square foot house that should be remodeled with a bulldozer.



Out and about today, I noticed a bunch of blue tarps on rooftops and other parts of houses and remembered hearing there'd been some tornado or microburst damage nearby.

Homes built this way are earthquake-proof, fireproof, and what's most important to those of us living in Tornado Alley, tornado-proof. They're beautiful and require little in the way of heating and cooling to boot, because it's basically an igloo shaped cave.



These folks with tarps over their roofs, all they would have lost is landscaping and fences if they'd been in Super Adobe dwellings.