Tire wall

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Eco Garden, Cerca Natural, Diy Retaining Wall, Tire Garden, Reuse Old Tires, Car Tyres, Earth Bag Homes, Backyard Hammock, Earthship Home

As we live on a steep slope we’ve had to build a lot of retaining walls in order to create functionalilty around access, water management and food production. We’ve used a range of techniques to do this including working with old car tyres to build a big earthship retaining wall directly near our house. Earthship construction is a technique of building developed by Amercian architect, Mike Reynolds. He’s famous for using ‘rubbish’ and earth as building materials. We love his work. We chose…

Earthship Plans, Tire Wall, Earthship Biotecture, Sustainable Homestead, Sustainable Diy, Mud Hut, Wattle And Daub, Tire Art, Eco Earth

Tire walls are made by laying tires in staggered courses like bricks or concrete blocks. Each tire is filled with compacted earth, so that it becomes a rammed earth brick encased in steel belted rubber, about 95% compacted. A pounded tire weighs over 300 pounds, therefore, all tires are pounded in place and are NOT […]

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