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FIRST EARTH (8/12) - Uncompromising Ecological Architecture

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Chapter 8
Arabian Earth

FIRST EARTH is a documentary about the movement towards a massive paradigm shift for shelter -- building healthy houses in the old ways, out of the very earth itself, and living together like in the old days, by recreating villages. An audiovisual manifesto filmed over the course of 4 years and 4 continents, FIRST EARTH makes the case that earthen homes are the healthiest housing in the world; and that since it still takes a village to raise a healthy child, it is incumbent upon us to transform our suburban sprawl into eco-villages, a new North American dream.

FIRST EARTH official website
http://www.davidsheen.com/firstearth

Chapter 1 - Prologue: What's Wrong With Architecture
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuDkfuziZiI

Chapter 2 - African Earth
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11n97wW1PLQ

Chapter 3 - American Earth
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3trjONseWiA

Chapter 4 - Why Earth
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysOVLw30fvQ

Chapter 5 - Empowering Earth
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFTwnTbLPBU

Chapter 6 - Another Earth Is Possible
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIVc7DZemTo

Chapter 7 - European Earth
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOeb3jv3xoU

Chapter 8 - Arabian Earth
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFnzpCf5Z-g

Chapter 9 - Urban Earth
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dydztLSnF78

Chapter 10 - Inner City Earth
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dk64Of_HPrI

Chapter 11 - International Earth
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqdsSwOwD9A

Chapter 12 - Epilogue: Future Earth
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoSdnMEhRa0

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  • As Jack Benny said, "Si!"

    A wild notion. Steel reinforced cob.

  • Those are beautiful. one thing kept nagging at me though, and that was the high death rates from earthquakes in places like this. I know the little hotdog stand was adequate on the shake table, but please rediscover rebar. It's usually a low quality steel, mostly made from recycled steel, and it doesn't take a lot to give a structure flexibility.

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  • @whothehellgivesadamn SLAVES? Backward culture? Get a life douchbag. That "backward" culture is where our addictive oil comes from, what 1.5 billion people call a religion, where no matter how much you try our government cant seem to keep their nose out of. And as for these buildings they have stood for over 500 years can u say that about the goddamn ugly useless skyscrapers sprouting out everywhere? She's right our skyscrapers would last 50 years let alone 500 years. We need to change our ways.

  • Thank you.

  • amazing thanx for posting! hi from Ukraine :)

  • ok... steel or no steel? i think steel in cob will rust even quicker than in concrete. reinforced concrete will never last over 300y! buildings of today are made to last 30y thanks to capitalism. maybe hemp fiber can help out?

  • steel rebar in earthen building weakens them not strengthens them. The oldest continuously inhabited structures on earth are built without steel. Steel and concrete skyscrapers dont last very long before they start to crack and rust and must be brought down with explosives.

  • Right, the buidlings have valuable qualities, but this woman is ridiculously dogmatic about the values of these architectures. In reality they have many problems, like the other posters said, they need rebar or cobs or whatever as reinforcement. They are also too rectilinear.....they are valuable in the material innovations but please, a lot of those people are slaves to islamic crazy backward culture....so get ffing real already, take the good, leave the bad for god's sake...

  • so nice thank u 

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