Normal Michael Reynolds is an American architect who, concerned about the environment and innovation in the design, decide to implement a fully sustainable home and the least possible harm to the environment: it provides water to itself, automatically maintains a comfortable temperature or recycles its own waste. For this you can go ahead with your project Reynolds will have to battle hard against the bureaucracy and other bodies, making his story into a quasi-epic involuntarily, in order to present the public housing model.
Michael Reynolds for 35 years breaking the rules of conventional architecture and society. Since the seventies, began building a settlement in a New Mexico desert with beer cans, clay, plastic bottles and old tires. There are few followers Reynolds, since they have built around 2,000 houses Earthship (literally, ship earth).
This job has been rejected by politicians and colleagues who only a few years ago (oddly enough from the great Tsunami disaster) recognize the validity of these constructs.
Their houses are almost entirely self , regardless of external resources to points unimaginative. They are integrated greenhouses that supply all kinds of fruit or vegetables to their inhabitants, and a complex water filtration system . The challenge, according to Reynolds, has become a "matter of life or death": that of combating climate change and dependence on fossil fuels. According to him, anyone can build their own housing.
Reynolds and his team traveled to the Andaman Islands (India) for reconstruction after the Tsunami of 2004. There fourteen dwellings erected fully ecological and instructed local architects so they could apply the same system in the future . In 2005, after Hurricane Rita, developed a similar project in Mexico. Reynolds lives in a large plateau of New Mexico, where its headquarters and home, grow their own plants and designing new projects.
We witness a method that is repeated in different Earthship designs : structures tires half buried in a "U". The reason: the half-buried structure to regulate the temperature of the dwelling unit with the temperature of the earth and the high thermal inertia that constructive sistma contains, so it is unnecessary to use air conditioning systems.
Original Title: Garbage Warrior
Director: Oliver Hodge
Country: Great Britain
Duration: 86 '
Year: 2007
Language: English with English subtitles.
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