Wohnen im nachhaltigen Wohnprojekt Earthship Tempelhof | ARD Room Tour

Germany's first Earthship is located in Kreßberg on the Tempelhof estate. A sustainable earth house that is essentially made of civilization waste, such as old car tires, recycled building materials and natural materials such as earth and clay. It was built from 2015 to 2016 by the Schloss Tempelhof community and many international helpers. The principle was developed in the 1970s by American architect Michael Reynolds. There are already more than 2,000 Earthships worldwide. Adda, who is 85 years old, is one of the oldest residents of the construction trailer settlement around the Earthship. She also helped with the construction back then. The Earthship was largely built with hands. Adda used to work as a geriatric nurse in Freiburg. At the age of 63, she decided to live in the eco-settlement Tempelhof near Kreßberg between Heilbronn and Nuremberg. The Tempelhof Castle community was founded in 2010. A social experiment with the aim of counterbalancing the increasing isolation of people in modern social structures. The community is organized as a cooperative and all decisions are made on a grassroots democratic basis. Anyone who wants to live there must disclose their finances, pays in 32,000 euros and thus receives a right to live there for life. Near the village of Tempelhof, where the main community buildings are located, is Adda's construction trailer and yurt group and their community house, Earthship. The site is referred to as the Temple Field. Adda's personal living experiment is the hexagonal yurt. A variation of the familiar wooden nomad tent. She lives there alone in just under 20 square meters. Her boyfriend Wilhelm is a former farmer and skilled butcher; he comes from a village near the community. Adda and Wilhelm met through an Internet forum. In the meantime, he too has become part of the Schloss Tempelhof community. However, he lives in an apartment in the main village. Adda's yurt is made of prefabricated wooden elements and can be erected and dismantled relatively quickly. Like the other construction wagons and yurts, it is heated with local heat from the main village. The Earthship itself is heated only by solar energy. The building materials used store it and at the same time cool it in summer. Typically, Earthships are completely self-sufficient in terms of heat, electrical energy, water and sewage. The Earthship at Tempelhof is also nearly self-sufficient: a solar system on the roof, food in an indoor greenhouse, its own natural water treatment. However, due to concessions to official requirements, the Earthship pilot project has not become a completely self-contained cycle. Construction costs amounted to approximately 300,000 euros, not including the development of the construction truck group's temple field. A crowdfunding raised a whopping 198,000 euros. A film by Bastian Epple (editing and production), Enno Endlicher (camera) and Daniele Guida (sound). Production: EIKON Media GmbH, on behalf of SWR. 00:00 Living in the Earthship 00:25 Adda's honeycomb 05:10 The idea of the Earthship 06:06 Common room 09:21 Greenhouse 09:52 Bathroom 11:20 Life in the Earthship