Kreative Kubits

A very well built cob house.

Here is a collection of some of my favorite underground houses. Underground houses are an environmentally concious way to build a beautiful home that compliments nature. You can have a beautiful garden built on top of your underground house or anything else you desire. The temperature stays quite stable beneath the earths surface so your heating and cooling bills are nothing or close to it. An underground house will quickly pay for itself in heating and cooling costs! My favorite designs are underground monolithic domes. This is essentially a steel reinforced concrete bubble built underground. I will post more about monolithic domes later.

One of the projects that I’ve had my eye on is the sustainable trailer house. This house is built onto a 16ft. flatbed trailer designed to be hauled around by any 1500 size pickup. Now you might think that it would be better to buy a manufactured house but in all reality our design will be more wind and weather resistant than most manufactured campers on the market today. Sure it won’t look like a camper but our design is meant to be a portable house not a recreational camper.

A very similar idea has been developed by the creator of tumbleweed homes but I want to extend the idea a bit further. Not just a sustainable living home but also a solar powered trailer house. I am a webdeveloper by hobby and I need at least minimal electrical resources in order to power my computer, and I am also a night owl so at times a light bulb would be nice. But proper use of fluorescent lighting can lower your power consumption dramatically.

This idea can also be converted to a standard manufactured home (trailer house) by applying a few additions to the current structure. The idea is to create an insulating layer of shade between the trailer house and the suns rays beating down on it’s roof. It’s really quite simple you build a pole frame garage just a little bigger than your trailer home. You can get as creative with this as you like. I suggest building out further on all sides and putting shelves between all of the poles not containing doorways. This allows the breeze to get through but stops the hot summer sun but allows the valuable winter sunshine inside for you to enjoy.