Another Beautiful Used-Tire Home!
Take a look. (big pics = slow download..sorry!)
This home design was a collaboration between the owner and myself. David is an old pal and Aerospace Engineering co-worker. So, when he and his wife watched our house being built, they fell in love with the concept and the area in which we lived. They bought a piece of property close-by, I gave David my AutoCAD drawings (about five houses at the time) and he made them into the design he wanted. David did the rest.
This home was completed in four years, mostly by David himself, with occasional help. Tires were pounded by hand and for the most part, were sub-contracted to teenage boys and day-labor at $6 per finished tire.
Facing into a meadow, a perfect location for solar. 100% off grid.
Living Room entry-way, viewing double sided seat. Can-walls built with FULL beer cans for maximum thermal mass. Floors are floated flagstone, salvaged slate roofing tiles and colored & treated concrete.
Further down the hallway, see Entry door as well as doorway to garage (open). Lines on the wall are noon shadow lines at the equinox, lower and winter solstice, upper.
Slate tiles and custom cabinetry set-off kitchen decor. Propane refrigerator at right.
A nicely warmed throne. Bathroom can-walls, again are made from FULL beer cans and painted cocoa brown to absorb and retain maximum heat from the sun.
Bathtub entry detailed in pine tongue & groove.
Ventilation window thru upper wall at both ends of the bathroom, allow privacy AND ventilation.
View to West entry/exit and Master Bedroom. Gray-green & black stone is slate shingle scrap. Stairs are flagstone and bedroom floor is colored concrete.
This house was designed by my friend David with help from me, Michael Shealy. It was built with rammed-earth used tires, empty and FULL beer cans, as well as conventional materials, by the owner/builders in the fashion conceived by Michael Reynolds, of Solar Survival Architecture, revised and improved by the Owners and myself.
For our Tire-House story and more tire-house links: click here.