Sustainable Home Designs: Corrugated Houses

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PHOTO: MOTHER EARTH NEWS STAFF
Steve Elias stands by his cardboard dome house in San Rafael, California.

There are domes, and there are domes … and then there are the bolt-together cardboard domes sold by Steve Elias of San Rafael, California.

Steve’s line of compact (14 feet across), lightweight (300 pounds) geodesic modules — which have recently undergone A.I.D. (Agency for International Development) field tests in Guatemala — combine an impressive array of virtues:

  • Low cost. (Steve sells kits for $400 each … little more than you’d pay for a comparably sized tent.)
  • Published on Jan 1, 1977
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