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Green Home Building and Sustainable Architecture: A Short History.

Natural Building

The idea of making walls by stacking bags of sand or earth has been around for at least a century. Attending a 1984 NASA symposium for brainstorming ways to build shelters on the moon, Khalili coupled the old sandbag idea with the ancient adobe dome and arch construction methods from his homeland in the Middle East. August 18, 2007.