![]() Abandoned oil silos are transformed into efficient, affordable, and comfortable housing for families worldwide. The Silo Home is an adaptive-reuse design. The Oil Silo Home is designed on a firm belief that sustainability begins with eliminating waste. ![]() They also believe that if they can build more Silo Homes, the overall quality of the global environment will actually be improved. The Silo Home is prefabricated, inexpensive, highly structurally stable, efficient to assemble and disassemble, and has the capacity for mass production. The designers believe that the sustainable Silo Home exceeds a net zero carbon footprint it is carbon positive. The Oil Silo Home claims to build upon the work of Buckminster Fuller, establishing an evolution of Bucky’s Dymaxion Home. In this age of limited resources why not convert some of these existing structures into homes? Natural gas is becoming scarce and oil silos are now becoming abandoned as storage containers. Irving Limited, focusing mostly on industrial maintenance.The Oil Silo Home is a self-supporting housing solution for the post-oil world.Īs the Earth’s human population increases at an exponential rate, oil discovery is decreasing at an exponential rate. He works as a reliability engineer for J.D. Lord said he saved a lot of money on labour costs, but he's not a carpenter. In total Lord estimates he spent around $60,000 converting the silo into his getaway. The footrests on his table are made from old industrial chains, and his kitchen lights hang on pullies that were a gift. The iron spiral staircase leading to the loft cost just a few hundred dollars because a friend he knew had it kicking around his backyard. Like the silo itself, most of the materials Lord used to build the interior were second-hand. "When you're laying in bed you can see the stars," said Lord. He then covered it all up by installing the walls of a second silo inside the first one.Īnd the port where grain was piped in from top of the silo? That's now a round skylight. It's almost like we're on vacation, every weekend. - Steven Lordīut in fact, Lord installed 4.5 inches of urethane insulation on the walls and six inches in the ceiling. Portions of galvanized steel are exposed on the inside wall giving the illusion that the building isn't insulated. He says it allowed him to increase the living space in the silo, while making it feel more open. Lord's silo has a loft with a bedroom, bathroom and skylight. "It gets really warm."Ī thermostat on the wall says it's 0 C outside and 27.5 C inside. "You have to open windows and doors," said Lord. You might wonder how warm it could be inside a galvanized steel drum in the middle of February in northern New Brunswick.īut one step inside and a blast of heat hits you in the face from the combined forces of a wood stove and heat pump. ![]() Lord also constructed a screened-in porch leading into the silo to enjoy the outdoors bug-free. When you're laying in bed you can see the stars. And it meant custom-building shelves and countertops. That meant windows and doors that would normally be installed on a flat surface had to be built on a curve. He poured a 32-by-20 foot concrete slab on the footprint of the old cabin and rebuilt his newly-acquired grain silo.īut in a world where most buildings are cubes Lord had to adapt to working inside a cylinder. In the summer of 2020 Lord took the silo apart and transported it to the exact site of his great grandfather's cabin in Saint-Basile. ![]() Also in Lord's Saint-Basile silo hangs a photo from the silo's original home on a farm in Saint-Leonard. ![]()
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