Earth Sheltered Structures
Earth has huge mass- because of its high density, it undergoes slow temperature changes and offers a fairly constant exterior temperature at a wall. When you build a structure into the earth utilizing the earth as your walls and floors, you find that with no extra heating or cooling, your home will maintain a year round temperature of 55-57 degrees fahrenheit. That is something to think about when the outside temperature is 20 below zero- inside with no heat, in an earth sheltered home, it will be 55 degrees.
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25 Reasons To Consider Earth Shelter Housing
Your home will have more natural lighting than a conventional home. If you feel that all earth sheltered homes are dark, damp and dreary, you have a real surprise coming.
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Earth Sheltered Housing
An earth sheltered house is quite simply a building that uses earth (dirt) to protect it from the outside elements. Fallout shelters built during the Cold War era are in fact earth sheltered houses, or buildings. The focus of this website is however a somewhat more optimistic application of earth sheltering, and that is as an aid to building more energy efficient dwellings for now and into the future.
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Passive Annual Heat Storage (PAHS) Improves Earth Sheltered Homes
Passive Annual Heat Storage (PAHS) is a method of collecting heat in the summertime, by cooling the home naturally, storing it in the earth naturally, then returning that heat to the home in the winter. It includes extensive use of natural heat flow methods, and the arrangement of building materials to direct heat from where ever we get it to where ever we want it, all without using machinery to make it work. With the rising cost of energy, all home builders should get familiar with basic PAHS principles.
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Underground Architecture
Skyscrapers are the headliners, and underground buildings are the virtually unnoticed understudies of architecture.
Every day, tens of thousands of Americans use more than 450 public and commercial structures and 5,000 private homes that nestle within the earth. Major new subterranean structures are under construction or are on the drawing boards.
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