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About fifteen years ago, Michael Reynolds, a Taos architect, began building environmentally friendly homes. He used discarded materials (automobile tires and aluminum cans), earth berms, thick ceilings, lots of south facing glass. The houses were solar-electric with no central heating or cooling and used rain water collected from the roof. The finish was natural adobe. Reynolds developed a solar toilet, so there would be no effluent contaminating the water table. His wife, Chris, called the homes "earthships" because they were not connected to any system for the water or electricity, and just kind of "sailed" around. We were attracted mainly by Reynolds' softly curving interior shapes, and the fact that you could build the house yourself. Dobson House is not a conventional earthship as we have a well and traditional plumbing. We collect rain water from the roofs to irrigate our gardens. The house was originally laid out by Reynolds' office with 4 lower bedrooms and no corridor. We added the corridor to save old junipers on each side of the space and built two lower guest rooms. It took us about three years to build the home and we did about 80% of the work. |
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