Building Inspiring Spaces

off-grid sustainable design and construction

Pangea Design | Build is an architectural design and construction firm
providing sustainable buildings for residential, commercial and government use.
We are specialists in Modern Off-Grid Designs, Systems and Construction.

As we stand on the brink of a pivotal era, it is evident that our approach to design and construction must evolve. Pangea Design | Build was born out of a profound commitment to fostering sustainability in every aspect of our lives. The name “Pangea” itself, derived from the supercontinent that once united Earth’s landmasses, reflects our vision of a united effort to create a sustainable future. Together We Are Strong.

Who We Are

CORINNA GEBERT               

Dipl. Ing. FH, LEED AP, PHI 

Corinna Gebert has gathered over 20 years of experience in architectural design, project management and construction while working for a series of notable firms in Germany, Australia and the USA. Her portfolio includes single and multifamily, mixed use, community, and adaptive reuse projects. She particularly excels in navigating complex building jurisdictions and working with diverse, interdisciplinary teams. 

Throughout her career, Corinna has been pursuing and integrating a deep commitment to resource preservation and environmental responsibility into her work. She is a LEED Accredited Professional, Permaculture Design Course Graduate and Certified Passive House Designer. 

Corinna’s passion and expertise lies in preserving, re-imagining, and upgrading existing resources, combined with low-impact new construction, to help our clients shape creating living, restorative spaces within responsible footprints.

ERIC RYDER

Eric Ryder is an Architect with over 20 years of experience and is the Principal Architect at Pangea Design | Build, an architecture and design firm located in West Los Angeles. Eric has been awarded the USF SACD Distinguished Alumni Award, AIA/LA Restaurant Design Award, both People’s Choice and Jury’s.

Eric has built projects throughout the United States, Hong Kong, Philippines and has been recognized in the LA Times “House of the Week”, House Beautiful & Architecture Digest. We engage in projects of various scale and type. Our portfolio, a collection of residential, commercial, and hospitality projects, showcases our versatility and the collaborative process that are reflective of our values and experiences.

JONAH REYNOLDS

Jonah Reynolds has been designing, developing and building off-grid, super sustainable buildings in the United States and all over the world for over 40 years.

Jonah has extensive knowledge in designing off-grid living systems for new construction and retrofit/remodel projects of all sizes and in all climates and geagraphic conditions.

His projects include residences in challenging, remote hillside locations, emergency shelters in Haiti and schools and community buildings in Malawi and Sierra Leone.

Since long before co-founding Pangea Design Build, Jonah has been an integral part of Earthship Biotecture, the birthplace of the Earthship concept, in New Mexico with his father, Michael Reynolds.

Jonah’s unique life experience includes traveling to dozens of countries to teach and assist thousands of individuals become self sufficient through off-grid living structures.

Values Statement

Values are the governing principles, beliefs, and behavioral guidelines that inform our actions and perceptions. Values have been defined as the “ideals that give significance to our lives that are reflected through the priorities that we choose, and that we act on consistently and repeatedly.”

Our values are the bedrock of our collective and are the fabric of our collective binding each generation to its collective ancestry. 

We are committed to uphold, honor, and adhere to the following values: 

Integrity and Honesty: Truth and transparency are important values for each and every collective member to uphold. The collective values consistency, character, and loyalty to its fellow collective members and community. 

Humbleness and Kindness: The Collective is encouraged to be modest and reverent both with financial success as well as personal and professional accomplishments. Being respectful, kind, and humble are enduring qualities of the Collective. 

Strength and Perseverance: The Collective values hard work and tenacity. Being strong and overcoming obstacles with a positive outlook have helped to sustain the collective for many decades. 

Family Belonging and Unity: The Collective honors the importance of family togetherness and unity and encourages a culture of inclusivity. We believe our greatest assets are the shared knowledge, wisdom, and connections that our Collective continuity provides one generation to the next. 

Social Responsibility and Stewardship: The Collective has a moral obligation to be responsible to one another as a family, but also to be good stewards of our communities. We believe in supporting the communities where we live, the employees that are an extension of our family, and being engaged through volunteer work, philanthropy, and outreach to live these values.

Mission

Our mission is to design and build comprehensive off-grid buildings and sustainable community.

We have the ability to meet the needs of today without compromising the needs of tomorrow. So is the unique potential of humanity. Out mission is to nurture the environment and secure the future for our children by being pioneers of highly efficient ecological living homes.

We create sustainable solutions to the issues facing an evolving world.

Through our tried and true architectural community planning we seek to realize the last potential of appropriate community design. Utilizing collaborative efforts linking inherent global ideas, we co-create clean water systems, pure energy systems, healthy waste management and highly efficient and effective building methods.

We focus on education and hands on research and development.

Through such tangible and realistic efforts, comprehensive sustainable global community will emerge and flourish.

The purpose of the Collective is to foster a caring, nurturing, and supportive family culture in pursuit of collective happiness through love, hard work, and purposefulness. We commit to better ourselves and the world through:

Demonstrating our shared values, generosity, honor, education, empathy, integrity, and responsibility. Leading from behind and by example. Cherishing, promoting, and sharing our family values, heritage, and legacy. Safeguarding all collective members from harm or peril. Preparing our collective to be good stewards. Fostering family to pursue a healthy, happy, and productive life through hard work, positive behaviors, and good attitudes.

* To reduce the economic and institutional barriers between humans and their habitat.

* To reverse the overall negative effect that conventional human housing has on this planet.

* To create a less stressful plane of existence for humans in an effort to reduce the stress that they in turn place on the planet and each other.

* To interface economics and ecology in a way that immediately and tangibly affects current pressing problems with life on earth.

* To provide a direction for those who want to live in peace with each other and their environment.

* To empower individuals with the unarguable forces of nature as opposed to incapacitating them with the smothering forces of politics and bureaucracy.

* To find & distribute the appropriate soil from which the flower of humanity can blossom.

* To evolve humanity into an earthen harmony already exemplified by more evolved structures such as plants, animals and water.

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Off-Grid Builders, Earthship Home Designs

Pangea Design | Build is an architectural design and construction firm providing sustainable buildings for residential, commercial and government use. We are specialists in Modern Off-Grid Designs, Systems and Construction.
We are dedicated to high quality, super efficient and skilled craftsmanship. Our primary goal is to provide buildings that are as sustainable as possible and as affordable as possible. We value the opportunity to work with you. Our services are based on many decades of experience on all kinds of buildings, systems and lifestyles. We offer standard designs and custom designs to make your dreams come true.

Note: We design and build all over the USA and around the world.

What is an Earthship Home?

An Earthship is a type of passive solar house that is made of both natural and upcycled materials (such as earth-packed tires). Earthships can be completely off-grid or partially off-grid.

Earthships can be built in any part of the world, in any climate (with a permit) and still provide electricity, potable water, contained sewage treatment and sustainable food production.

Earthships are thermal mass homes first, passive solar homes second.

Whatever temperature goes into an Earthship, it will hold… and since it is also a Passive Solar House, it is also very tight and interacts only with the sun and the earth for heating and cooling, providing stable comfort year round in any climate. This results in being able to provide a sustainable home on property that may not be situated to the ideal of 13.5 degrees east of south.

Taos, New Mexico | California

Construction and Permit Drawings

Earthship Floor Plans. Pangea Builders are experts at acquiring permits for passive house, earthships and any other type of green building. Included in our services are production of construction and permit set drawings to build your beautiful green building. This includes Earthships and any other type of floor plan layout for off-grid living.

Off-grid floor plans and Custom drawings for Earthships and all other types of floor plans, layouts and custom designs. 

Pangea Design | Build can get your permit and build for you anywhere in the USA.

Taos, New Mexico | California

California, New Mexico, Colorado, Oklahoma, Arizona Off-Grid Earthships

Design | Permits | Build

Earthships can be permitted and built in California, New Mexico, Colorado, Oklahoma, Arizona and more… Any off-grid, sustainable building can be permitted and built in California, New Mexico, Colorado, Oklahoma, Arizona and more… All buildings must adhere to the state building, health and environmental codes.

Pangea Design | Build provides construction and permit drawings, acquiring permits and full turn-key construction services for residential, multi-family, commercial and non-profit projects.

Taos, New Mexico