Pine Ridge Pallet House Tour

Earth Tipi (earthtipi.org) in collaboration with Texas Natural Builders (texasnaturalbuilders.info) is now halfway through our project to build a pallet house on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. The house is built from shipping pallets found locally and insulated with straw an clay. The majority of the materials for this project are natural or recycled. 90% of the materials were brought from wittin a 20 mile radius of the site. 5% was brought from within 90 miles and the remaining 5% brought from within 250 miles making this project sustainable on all considerations.

This project is one aspect of a multi phase program to bring sustainable housing and food sovereignty to Pine Ridge. The family who will receive the home had been homeless for nearly 10 years but they had been workig diligently for more than 2 years to build themselves a home from salvaged material. Their efforts were blown over in a nasty storm during the winter of 2010. The family has been am integral part of the project and have been responsible for locating materials as well as many hours of labor. This is the second project for Earth Tipi. Our first project was completed in November of 2011 and was a collaboration with House Alive from Oregon.

Category:

Comedy

Tags:

• Pallets
• Natural
• Building
• Eco
• Construction
• Clay
• Straw
• Cob
• PineRidge
• Lakota
• Wakpamni
• Homeless

[EarthTipi]

@MrAnthonyRizzo thank you! We have thousands of pallets available to us here on the reservation and many end up in dumps or trash piles. Our mission is to find ways to use materials readily available and create homes and other useful structures.

[Danny00201]

Are you chewing gum? lol cool house how long did it take to finish

[EarthTipi]

@Danny00201 ugg... sadly, yes... the house still is not complete but the ends are sealed up and all that is left is the plaster, flooring and finish work... construction began July 20, 2011. As of today if there were 5-10 experienced people on the job there is about 1.5 weeks of work left.

[MrAnthonyRizzo]

Interesting use of pallets.

[Danny00201]

@EarthTipi It's stilll a cool house and believe me know how it is to have to do stuff with limitted help and extreme stress. Was just kidding you bout the gum couldnt help it.