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Emergency Sandbag Shelter
and Eco-Village
Nader Khalili
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Price: $34.95
Paperback | 304 pages
ISBN: 978-1-889625-05-8
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Summary
"Emergency Sandbag Shelter" is a must-have manual for every home, as an emergency guide. Now for the first time this book is made available to people around the world by its inventor, award-winning architect Nader Khalili, whose specialty was skyscrapers and who has now dedicated his life to teaching how to build shelter for humanity. The book, with over 700 photos and illustrations, shows how to use sandbags and barbed wire, the materials of war, for peaceful purposes as the new invention known as Superadobe or earth-bag, which can shelter millions of people around the globe as a temporary as well as permanent housing solution. This affordable, self-help, sustainable, and disaster resistant structural system is a spin off from Khalili's presentation to NASA for habitat on the moon and Mars, which successfully passed rigorous tests for strict California earthquake building codes. This book along with a small library of films and kits can guide anyone to learn and teach how to build a home or community. Cal-Earth, as a nonprofit organization, has an ongoing educational project of a Distance Learning Program, connecting directly from the institute to individuals, schools, NGOs and disaster struck areas in need of shelter around the world, as well as hands-on interactive apprenticeship programs at the institute.
About the Author
Nader Khalili, California architect and humanitarian, has been developing simple breakthrough natural building technologies for over three decades. His innovations are known as Superadobe (sandbags and barbed wire) and Ceramic Houses (earth and fire). He grew up as one of nine children who "constantly knew need". His grandmother recited to him the poems of Rumi, the 13th century Persian mystic poet, which were to become his inspiration in life and architecture. "I never forgot the human need," he says, "and now I'm responding in a small way." Khalili has written several books, served as a consultant to the U.N. (UNIDO) and a contributor to NASA, as well as directing Cal-Earth Institute. For his work in Earth and Ceramic Architecture he has received awards such as "Excellence in Technology" from the CCAIA, "Shelter for the Homeless" from the U.N. and HUD, "Outstanding Paper" from the ASCE (Aerospace Division) for Generating Lunar Structures, and most recently the Aga Khan Award for Architecture for “Sandbag Shelter Prototypes”.
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