Natural Building

MAY 20, 2021

Windcatchers are a great example of the marriage between architectural design and the environment to help keep your house cool. For more than a thousand years, windcatchers have existed in and around the Persian Gulf, providing natural ventilation and passive cooling.

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Natural Building

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Kathleen Draper, a climate change activist has constructed a 1,500-square-foot, three-bedroom straw bale home that she said will help reduce global warming and keep her comfortable in the harshest New York winter. “I “This is my attempt to minimize the amount of energy needed to keep a house heated and cooled.”.

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Natural Building

AUGUST 10, 2019

Our professors said we had to start designing structures that heated and cooled themselves, produced electricity, and actually improved the environment around them. The floor was 3 feet below ground level to tap the natural warmth of the earth. But we would actually have electricity and everything a “normal” house would have.

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Natural Building

MAY 13, 2006

I'm sure you have experienced the delicious coolness of a basement room on a scorching summer day. Perhaps you've gone into that same basement in mid-winter and been surprised how warm it felt. Many people think that an earth-sheltered house must be dark, dank, dirty and doubtful as a pleasant abode. They are wrong.

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Natural Building

SEPTEMBER 23, 2007

Stone Houses. The Enertia House. The Enertia House. Recycled Houses. Green Home Building and Sustainable Architecture. Sustainable architecture is an exciting and important field, with many people reviving traditional methods of building and others creating innovations to established practices. About Me.

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