Partially Submerged Modern Homes In Paraguay Are Both Efficient And Stunning! posted Categories: Building Methods Wherever you may live, people develop a perspective of other parts of the world in school through books or maps they might have seen or studied. The past twenty years has been a crash course to the whole world discovering through photos and videos online what the rest of the world is really like. Those of us from the U.S. might have pictured homes from Paraguay to look like this: Or maybe like this: But when you take traditional understanding of mud or cob construction, go off to college and study architecture, and then apply the principles of modern technology to this upbringing where earthen homes and their efficiency is a prominent feature of what a home should offer, then your new home designs might look something like this: Architect Aldo Cristaldo has built this fantastic partially submerged atrium style home filled with glass, yet shaded by the earth and an arch-top roof.
EcoPods - EcoPods High Wickham 2010 This EcoPod was for use as an office and garden room. The garden had its own river at the bottom and was a very beautiful setting. The EcoPod was built for small Pilates group. As with all our EcoPods it was heavily insulated with a wall, floor and roof thickness of 200mm which means it will be very toasty, even in the winter. It was clad in Western Red Cedar with a butyl roof covering. Buxton 2008 This EcoPod has amazing views over a valley in Buxton, Derbyshire. Pitsmore 2008 This EcoPod was built as a garden room at the end of a long garden to provide an extra room for sleeping and a space to enjoy whilst in the garden. Whaley Bridge 2004 This unusual garden room was designed to meet the needs of the clients who both had a love of gardening, and had a particular passion for Chinese plants, bamboo and grasses. How we make EcoPods If you are interested in purchasing an EcoPod for you garden, woodland or campsite please give us a call.
Everything I ever knew or said about green sustainable design was probably wrong The drawing above, or some version of it, has been part of every sustainable design class since about 1970: have lots of south facing windows carefully shaded by properly designed overhangs, with the winter sun heating up that thermal mass of the floor. Frank Lloyd Wright did it; I did it; everybody did it. But what if we were all wrong? Over at Green Building Advisor, Martin Holladay looks at what was almost a religious doctrine and questions its tenets, writing: ...certain aspects of the passive solar approach — an emphasis on careful solar orientation, a concern for proper roof overhangs on the south side of a house, and a preference for south-facing windows over north-facing windows — seem embedded in my DNA. While large expanses of south-facing glass help heat up a home on a sunny day, the solar heat gain doesn’t come when heat is needed. What's changed? We were here in the late 1970s when ‘mass and glass’ took on ‘superinsulated.’ Passive house or Grandma's house?
Diy Eco Hobbit House Kit | 1001 Gardens An American manufacturer offers a prefabricated DIY eco hobbit house kit reinforced fiber that is easy to install. It remains only to vegetate the top of the shell to live like the characters in the Lord of the Rings. From dream to reality Riding on the success of the Lord of the Rings, which is undeniable, an American manufacturer offers modular homes clearly evoking a Hobbit house, a nation of small creatures invented by J. R. R. DIY eco hobbit house kit: Tropical or desert Version? According to the manufacturer, the prefabricated structure of the hobbit house would be both “water resistant, non-toxic, fire-resistant and zero emissions.” Prefabricated hobbit house under a green roof Side tariff, the manufacturer suggests a price of around 410 euros per square meter comes, knowing that smaller structures start at 38 sqm.
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Here's the dirt on a prefabricated plastic earth sheltered home design you can buy off the shelf No, this isn't Hobbiton or a scene from Teletubbies. It's a rendering of a community of earth-sheltered houses built from a new prefab building system. I once wrote that from Hobbiton to Tatooine, earth sheltered houses make sense all over the universe; now you can just order one up. Earth-sheltered houses have long been known to be very energy-efficient, with the thermal mass of all that dirt keeping the temperature relatively even all year. © Green Magic Homes The Green Magic Homes system has addressed these problems in an entirely new way, using the age-old methods of building with earth in conjunction with the space-age technology of composite materials. The FRP components are made in their factory.... Assembled on site with glue and stainless steel screws through those flanges sticking up, Then covered with soil and planting. The R value or heat transfer resistance value of a GREEN MAGIC HOME, is approximately 1 per every 10 cm of Earth. © Green magic homes roof installation
Earth Sheltered Homes: How to Build an Affordable Underground Home Energy efficiency doesn’t necessarily involve the newest of technologies. As you can see from these pictures and videos, a well-known building technique can easily do the task. The earth-sheltered homes can provide all the comfort and tranquility you seek. Also, the final result is a good weather-resistant dwelling which won’t disappoint you in terms of modern living conditions. There are two types of home design you can opt for when it comes to this type of homes: underground and bermed, meaning the earth covers one or more walls while the main structure can be built above grade or partially below grade. 1. 2. This little treasure is located in Hol, Buskerud, Norway and it’s for those who want to reconnect with nature and spend quality time with their loved one…. more details HERE… 3. The “umbrella” is hidden in the earth that stands for the roof of the house and insulates the soil that surrounds the building.
How easy is it to start your own microbrewery? Many men are turning such imaginings into liquid reality. The Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA) was established in 1980 by a group of 20 microbrewers; it now has 786 members. Last year, 62 new breweries joined. Volume sales are growing exponentially, and the variety is astounding: SIBA stats for 2013 list 4,000 permanent cask ales – a 25% increase on the 2012 figure – as well as 5,800 seasonals and specials. But, how were these breweries and their beers born? Rob Witt launched Totally Brewed in Nottingham in March 2014. “I was a home brewer for six years and I thought about opening my own brewery early on. “I did my homebrewing most weeks. Witt says the internet has been a valuable source of ideas, but warns of the huge gap between appreciating a good beer and making one. “I have a lot of people coming to the brewery asking about setting up themselves, but they have never even homebrewed. Mashing in a batch of Mane Event at the New Lion brewery “Business has been great. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.