03 Adobe Skytherm Home Plans

03 ADOBE SKYTHERM HOME 'Adobe' is a word commonly used to describe employing earth as a building material in places such Mexico, Southwest USA, and Spain, so compressed stabilised earth (CSE) material is used to build the walls of this house. Earth is one of the cheapest and most  abundant building materials on the planet. It provides excellent heat insulation, making adobe buildings cooler in the summer and hotter in the winter than buildings made of steel and concrete. Structurally speaking, earth is difficult to squash, and thus makes good walls.The alternative material for building walls of this eco-house is Pumice-crete, a low density concrete made from pumice aggregate, portland cement, and water, The walls are very durable,fireproof, possess fine soundproofing qualities, and are very aesthetically pleasing because they can be formed to suit a vatiety of architectural forms and styles.Skytherm® Roof Pond, patented by architect Harold Hay in the '60s, has been incorporated in t