An Earthship is a radically sustainable green building home made of recycled materials. Electricity is from the sun with solar panels and wind with wind modules. Water is caught on the roof from rain and snow melt. Sewage is treated on site in interior and external botanical planters. Heating and Cooling is from the sun and the earth. Food is grown inside and outside.

Most Versatile and Economical building design in the world.

Earthships are constructed with recycled materials and perform as expected in any part of the world, in any climate and still provide you with what you need to survive.

Earthship Biotecture is based on 40 years of research and development by Michael Reynolds, principle architect of Earthship Biotecture.

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Earthship Sizes
Studio - 800 sq. ft.
One Bed - 1000 sq. ft.
Two Bed - 1200 sq. ft.
Three Bed - 1500 sq. ft.

Construction Drawings
30 pages in color, three sets.
11 x 17, includes five CAD views.
Includes details for trusses and vigas, two hours of free follow up consultation and one 'Ground Up' DVD

Studio - $4,000 / 800 sq. ft.
One Bed - $5,500 / 1000 sq. ft.
Two Bed - $6,000 / 1200 sq. ft.
Three Bed - $7,500 / 1500 sq. ft.

Changes or custom modifications are available at hourly rates.

Earthships generally cost about the same as conventional buildings cost in your area. The main difference is that Earthship come with all of their own systems. Conventional buildings do not and must be "plugged in".

Designed to meet Standard Building Codes.

All of our construction drawings are designed to meet standard building code requirements. Earthship Biotecture cannot guarantee your plans will qualify for a building permit. That is because before granting a permit, building code departments sometimes require changes or additions to architectural plans that have been submitted. Once we mail your final plans to you and you find they require changes for a building permit, we will do them for you at our normal hourly rates.

After you receive your plans and you require modifications, including a redesign of your project or value engineering, Earthship Biotecture reserves the right to charge an additional fee to make these changes. Please note that we mail you your final plans only after you have reviewed them and given us your approval.

Earthships provide security in economically unsecure times.

Earthships cost about the same as a conventional home, but a conventional home does not come with all the electricity and water you will use. A conventional home is bad for the planet, is not strong and uses materials that require a lot of fossil fuels to manufacture and get to your building site.

Earthships can provide you with carbon credits, tax incentives and a higher resale value.

The "House" as an assemblage of by-products: A sustainable home must make use of indigenous materials, those occurring naturally in the local area. For thousands and thousands of years, housing was built from found materials such as rock, earth, reeds and logs. Today, there are mountains of by-products of our civilization that are already made and delivered to all areas. These are the natural resources of the modern humanity. An Earthship must make use of these materials via techniques available to the common person. In a time when mortgage payments take up 75% of monthly income, homelessness is an epidemic and the stress is becoming a disease, housing must return to the grasp of the individual.

We can customize designs to meet your needs. your climate, your aesthetics.

We can consult and guide you through building your own earthship with your local builders, laborers, codes, permitting, etc.
If your county requires that you obtain a building permit, you will need a floor plan, and a local engineer's stamp. These are additional fees above the cost of these drawing sets. Earthship Biotecture can help you locate a local engineer to stamp the plans, and also provide plan development services at our hourly rates

We can retrofit your home with earthship biotecture, so you can live more efficiently in terms of energy, water, economics, etc. When your home is more energy efficient, it becomes more valuable and less costly to operate.