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An interesting looking documentary from faircompanies

It’s undeniable that building codes have saved lives, but something has changed over the past couple decades. Now thanks to the Internet the average homeowner has unlimited access to building techniques (both traditional and experimental) so we’re experimenting more than ever, often without regard for the rulebooks.

I have been filming stories with rule-bending builders for years now and I keep hearing about their promised land: sparsely inhabited parts of the U.S. (states like New Mexico and Texas) where there are no, or few, building codes.

I decided to seek out the renegades of this codebreakers utopia, so I organized a family road trip through the American Southwest in hopes of finding out what these revolutionary builders could teach us about smarter shelters.