Äerdschëff Luxembourg
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Personal / Community: Community project
Energy sub-category: Power generation, Legislation, regulation, mandate, Education, training
Description: Äerdschëff is the translation of “Earthship” in Luxembourgish. In the 1970s, Mike Reynolds (an American architect) dreamt up this concept in Taos in the desert of New Mexico, USA. We are inspired by this concept for our Äerdschëff. Our building is off-grid, it produces and manages its own resources in order to fulfill human needs in a resilient and regenerative way. We are striving to be self-sufficient in water (through storage and filtering systems), in electricity (through photovoltaic and solar thermal systems), in heating and cooling the building (passive solar and ventilation systems), and as well as in food production. We have adapted the earthship concept to the European context in order to meet the requirements the cold climate conditions (humidity, low sun exposure, long winter) of the Luxembourg context call for. We are making the Äerdschëff a showcase of efficiency and circular economy. We are creating an evolved earthship based on permaculture ethics – an ecological and social design directly inspired from natural systems – where each material is considered as a crucial part of the whole system.
Website about this solution: www.aerdscheff.cell.lu
Why I love this solution: It's holistic, and makes circular economy loops visible.