earth-sheltered

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I did some reading about the principles of earth-sheltered design, and really, it's quite simple.

It is an earth-sheltered building and includes canopy structures to provide shelters in the park.

Designs are available in a number of different styles including conventional, rounded, earth-sheltered, and organic.

Combining his interests in renewable energy and low impact developments he set to work on various concepts leading him to the earth-sheltered option.

It is also an earth-sheltered house.

Malcolm Wells (born 1926), American architect, "father of modern earth-sheltered home"

A Walipini is an earth-sheltered cold frame.

(The stove on the earth-sheltered lower floor helped heat the upper floor too.)

Mom has a hot prospect for that white elephantthe earth-sheltered place in Mannford," Robert continued. "

Wells lived on Cape Cod, and practiced what he preached by living in a modern earth-sheltered building of his own design.

Unless properly ventilated, earth-sheltered homes can have very high humidity levels, causing mold or mildew growth.

But now it summoned nothing of an earth-sheltered, rock and glass dwelling in the middle of a continent on Daedalus.

They can be fully or partly earth-sheltered which, combined with the pumice beads that are used for insulation, makes them very energy-efficient.

It was the first earth-sheltered building constructed by the City of Minneapolis and one of the few underground public libraries in the country.

Essentially an earth-sheltered, semi-underground structure, the building envelope combines with high performance systems, such as ground source heat pumps, to dramatically reduce energy consumption.

The below-ground orientation of many earth-sheltered homes can allow accumulation of radon or other undesirable materials.

Earth-sheltered buildings consist of one or more of three types: earth-covered, earth-bunded, and subterranean.

But for auto electrician Travis Campbell the earth-sheltered style was the solution to another problem frequent worries about evacuating his mobile home.

An interpretive sign at Sams Walker states that the Watlata lived in earth-sheltered cedar plank homes.

Despite large windows (usually facing south in the Northern Hemisphere), many earth-sheltered homes have dark areas in the areas opposite the windows.

We designed solar homes, earth-sheltered homes, thermal-mass homes, and other types in a wide variety of shapes and sizes.

Keeping to the shadows, and moving as stealthily as possible, he knew the house when he saw it. It was an Earth-sheltered fortress.

Because of the unorthodox design and construction of earth-sheltered homes, local building codes and ordinances may need to be researched and/or navigated.

Malcolm Wells, an architect and authority on earth-sheltered design, recommends an imperial R-value 10 insulation between deep soils and heated spaces.