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SUSTAINABLE

ARCHITECTURE

MICHAEL REYNOLDS

GARBAGE WARRIOR.

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Now the American dream is to survive

MICHAEL REYNOLDS.

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GARBAGE WARRIOR

Michael Reynolds designs and

builds houses in the heat andcold, whose buildings fromnatural and recycled materials,produce their own electricity,collect their own water, sewageand grow their own food.

Michael Reynolds has 35 years breaking therules of conventional architecture andsociety. Since the seventies, began building

a settlement in a New Mexico desert withbeer cans, clay, plastic bottles and old tires.There are few fans of Reynolds, as theyhave built around 2,000 houses Earthship(literally, ship earth).

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This working system has been

rejected by politicians and colleagueswho only in recent years (curiouslyfrom the great Tsunami disaster)recognize the validity of theseconstructs. His story was made into afilm under the title "Garbage Warrior"

(Warrior of the garbage), shown atinternational festivals, which offershope to those who want to believe ina lifestyle that respects theenvironment.

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Michael Reynolds was formed inthe schools of architecture inyour country to break withtradition after he had learned.Now try to show that each plasticbottle or used tire is also an

example of recycling andcreativity, a contribution to themaintenance of the planet.

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Reynolds lives in a large plateau of New Mexico,where its headquarters and home, grow theirown plants and design new projects.

We witness a method that is repeated in differentdesigns of Earthship: tires half buried structures

in the form of "U". The reason: the half-buriedstructure to regulate the temperature of thehousing unit with the temperature of the earthand the large thermal inertia that thisconstruction system contains, so it isunnecessary to use air conditioning systems.

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Imagine invest only $49 a year in the

maintenance of yourhome, your hometake advantage ofsunlight for heatingand rain waterpercolating fordomestic use andwatering plants.Imagine further thatdo not depend on oiland does not pollute.

In this we see how the bottles are placedin the construction of the wall.

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In it we see a finished house from outside, by their shapeand composition can be deduced that part of the organic

architecture.

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