Discover ECOHAB’s Past Projects!
Haitian School Partnership
The build in Anse a Galets, La Gonave, Haiti was started in November of 2020. The mission is to build six classrooms for an elementary school established by Greater Good Haiti in 2013. The school had been using an outdoor pavilion space and was in need of separate classrooms that could withstand hurricanes and earthquakes. As well as provide power, comfortable temperatures, and water in a place where all these basic needs are hard to come by.
Haiti Eco Housing Project
Our Haitian Eco Housing Project was conceived while working on a school on the island of La Gonave, Haiti. An anonymous donor from the US watched our progress from afar and contacted us wanting to get involved. As we met and chatted, it became clear that housing for La Gonave locals would be the focus of the initiative. We talked with the five most motivated and talented members of our La Gonave build crew and pitched the idea.
Guatemala Housing Initiative
From 2011-2013 we built two buildings in Comolapa, Guatemala both of which were conceived and executed through a partnership with the nonprofit Long Way Home and the founders of ECOHAB. The mission was to build homes for exemplary members of the community who were stuck in the never ending downward spiral of attempting to survive while renting homes and paying utilities without the financial means to do so.
Education Center, Puerto Rico
On September 20th, 2017 Hurricane Maria brought the Caribbean’s worst recorded natural disaster to the island of Puerto Rico. In a matter of hours people across the island were left without power, water and safe shelter. Within months, we located property owned by local family who were willing to launch an example of architecture appropriate to a place where hurricanes and earthquakes have become the norm.
Owner Builder Project, Athens, Georgia
The build outside of Athens, GA, USA was an excellent example of the type of knowledge transfer ECOHAB strives towards. The owner worked as a volunteer for three months learning skills and theory. They then went back home and, a few years later, broke ground on a solo build. For five years they built a four room house in their free time. We shared our information and techniques while onsite to enable the family to move into the finishing phase of construction.
Guatemala Housing Initiative
This project, outside of Taos New Mexico, was launched in 2006 and finished in 2009. We were approached by a local family who had been recently displaced from New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. Having lost nearly everything, they were interested in creating security for their parents who had never owned a home while raising their five children. Earthship Biotecture graciously donated a set of drawings and the long process began.