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Alternative Building Methods like AirCrete help people build a home now and get sheltered asap. Some do it in financial emergencies. Some people build their tiny homes because they cannot afford rent or mortgage payments any longer. Typically people build a Timber Frame House. Other people with a thinking mind eventually reason that a house does not have to be a "normal" house. For thousands of years homes and cities were built out of mud and stone. Once you start looking at what is possible and the beauty of ancient natural building materials then the floodgates of possibility open up. Earthship, cob, adobe, wool, hemp, straw clay slip, compressed earth bricks, straw bale, rammed earth, cast earth, ferrocement, caves, holes, trees.. The list goes on and the possibility becomes limitless.
Many people build tiny houses they can afford for 10,000 to 100,000 dollars because it's cheaper. What they don't consider is that they are still stuck in the conventional matrix mindset and the cost of using so many manufactured goods when the global economy is crashing is very high. Instead, they could have chosen something different and built a larger more practical home for even less money.
This is where alternative building materials come into their strength. Tiny to small houses for under 10,000; 200 to 600 square feet. With careful planning and a reevaluation of the ways people live and what is actually necessary vs what is luxury and that which you are supposed to want according to society, you can create a plan and finish a very nice comfortable home.
So before considering one of those 10 Best Tiny Houses You Can Buy On Amazon for Under $20k consider that many of those are only half finished and have to be shipped. The cost of which will exceed the purchase price in most cases. Even those shipping container homes cost more than just building a barndominium. Which is going to have a better resale price do you suppose? I know I want to want to live in a hallway.
And don't even think about living in a yurt. Natives build those using animal and plant products using their hands for free. However, to buy on will cost more than an alternative material house and then you suffer from weather extremes or expense large amounts of expensive energy to maintain comfort as the insulation is almost nothing.
Now that brings up an important point with all the alternative buildings. What is the most energy efficient and comfortable? To answer that question I will cut to the chase and tell you its one with thermal mass and insulation on the outside aligned to the sun and a percentage of southern glass exposure equal to the latitude you are on. Think of a brick house with brick on the inside and insulating walls on the outside. However, it's more expensive and effort to have both. So, If I have to choose only one I will choose insulation every time. It allows you to control the temperature and lower energy operating expenses over the lifetime of the house. So, this leaves only insulating structures. Straw bale, hemp, Encapsulated polystyrene, AirCrete, and perhaps earth ship if its a modern design with thick foam board around the earthen berm. Of course, you will have to choose between all-natural materials, a mix, or all man-made. To answer that I would ask what is affordable and available off the shelf right or out of the ground right now? Hemp is expensive and hard to source taking months to obtain. Straw can be hard to source too depending on where you are in relation to farmland and with can be expensive after shipping long long distances and often there's a waiting list. EPS is great, but shipping large containers of fluffy foam pellets is expensive and finding and grinding trash is a long trashy process. AirCrete on the other hand is made from portland cement inflated with air bubbles making it insulating. Anywhere you go its possible to locate, buy, haul and use portland cement right now this day. So, anywhere you can get water and a truck/trailer with a generator, a drill, a barrel, and a foam machine you can build an alternative home asap; in as little as 2 weeks to completion.
One worthy last mention is compressed earth bricks or cast earth. If modified and build with two walls 10 inches apart. The space can be filled with straw, big stem grass, foam trash, fiberglass, cellulose, or any insulating material and this forms a good modern-looking highly functional structure for the least possible money. Especially is built as an arch house saving the need for lumber roofing.
