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| - | # Earth-sheltered houses | + | This topic is part of [[gt: |
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| - | ## What are earth-sheltered houses? | + | ===== What are earth-sheltered houses? |
| A building can be described as earth-sheltered when it has a thermally significant amount of soil or substrate in contact with its external envelope. What that dry definition means in practice is that earth-sheltered architecture includes buildings that have earth against their walls, on their roofs, or are entirely underground. | A building can be described as earth-sheltered when it has a thermally significant amount of soil or substrate in contact with its external envelope. What that dry definition means in practice is that earth-sheltered architecture includes buildings that have earth against their walls, on their roofs, or are entirely underground. | ||
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| - | ## What are the benefits of earth-sheltered houses? | + | ===== What are the benefits of earth-sheltered houses? |
| Mike Oehler, author of //The $50 and Up Underground House Book// has an exhaustive list of advantages to be gained from his style of earth-sheltering: | Mike Oehler, author of //The $50 and Up Underground House Book// has an exhaustive list of advantages to be gained from his style of earth-sheltering: | ||
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| - | ## What can I do? | + | ===== What can I do? ===== |
| Earth-sheltering is certainly a technically challenging undertaking in some ways, but as with all building techniques, a great deal comes down to design choices. | Earth-sheltering is certainly a technically challenging undertaking in some ways, but as with all building techniques, a great deal comes down to design choices. | ||
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| - | ## Further resources | + | ===== Forum ===== |
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| + | ===== Further resources | ||
| - [Earth Sheltered Housing Institute](https:// | - [Earth Sheltered Housing Institute](https:// | ||
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| - | ## Related topics | + | ===== Related topics |
| - | - [Low-impact building](https:// | + | - [Low-impact building](buil:building) |
| - | - [Earthbag building](https:// | + | - [Earthbag building](eabb:earthbag_building) |
| - | - [Planning permission](https:// | + | - [Planning permission](plan:planning) |
| - | - [Living roofs](https:// | + | - [Living roofs](livr:living_roofs) |
| - | ## Specialist curators of this topic | + | ===== Specialist curators of this topic ===== |