Homeless, Senegal, Emergency Shelter, Refugee, Shelters, Disaster resistance, Hurricane, Fire, Flood, Earthquake, Emergency Kit

Homeless, Senegal, Emergency Shelter, Refugee, Shelters, Disaster resistance, Hurricane, Fire, Flood, Earthquake, Emergency Kit: "Cal-Earth" --- Architecture from Clay by Nader Khalili. Currently Khalili is seeking funding to build a village or around 20,000 homes for 1/2 the cost of other materials. "People in Senegal could build their own homes with local labor and materials close at hand." Unfortunately, the project still needs around $50 million to finance water, sewage and road systems which represent the major cost of the project....

This is where my more compact vision of adobe use has it's advantages. By concentrating people a bit more we gain materials conservation, energy conservation through shared heat and cooling systems of primarily passive solar & a shared heat exchanger, moderate aggregation of water usage allowing more efficient water usage and justifying a building water well, biodigestible sewage concentration favoring onsite treatment of biodigestible waste with energy recapture in the form of methane pumped back to the kitchens for cooking and sterilized fertilizer for the indoor and outdoor gardens which also supply digestible material for the biodigestor. Then again it is possible that one of my buildings could cost quite abit... at 6 stories high, each adobe story being 25 feet high from floor to ceiling and build into towers that are about 250 feet across each way with integrated bathrooms & kitchens two of each for every compartment stacked on top of each other in an integrated unit.