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The Knowledgebase. Management. Arduino. Earth-sheltered Living. Underground Homes. Future Society & Enviroment. Earth Sheltered Homes Financing Construction Sales. 5 Green Homes That Won Gold. Earth house. Lättenstrasse estate in Dietikon by Peter Vetsch another view of the same building Parking facility An earth house (also known as an earth berm or an earth sheltered home) is an architectural style characterized by the use of natural terrain to help form the walls of a house. An earth house is usually set partially into the ground and covered with thin growth. Modern earth houses are built with concrete walls and insulation.

Introduction[edit] Unlike traditional residential houses built on the ground, the aim of building an earth house is not to live under or in the ground, but with it. The main entrance to an earth house is sometimes on the roof. An earth house does not have to be built under the ground, it can be placed onto naturally grown terrain. The structural engineering of an earth house creates for an organic design requiring spatial sense and creativity. The entrance to an earth house can be in the roof. Structural engineering[edit] Meshed metal stretch net construction Light[edit] Geothermal heat pump. Ground source heating and cooling A geothermal heat pump or ground source heat pump (GSHP) is a central heating and/or cooling system that transfers heat to or from the ground.

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It uses the earth as a heat source (in the winter) or a heat sink (in the summer). This design takes advantage of the moderate temperatures in the ground to boost efficiency and reduce the operational costs of heating and cooling systems, and may be combined with solar heating to form a geosolar system with even greater efficiency. Ground source heat pumps are also known as "geothermal heat pumps" although, strictly, the heat does not come primarily from the centre of the Earth, but from the Sun. They are also known by other names, including geoexchange, earth-coupled, earth energy systems. Setup costs are higher than for conventional systems, but the difference is usually returned in energy savings in 3 to 10 years, and even shorter lengths of time with federal, state and utility tax credits and incentives.

Earth sheltering. Earth sheltering is the architectural practice of using earth against building walls for external thermal mass, to reduce heat loss, and to easily maintain a steady indoor air temperature.

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Earth sheltering has become relatively more popular in modern times, especially among environmentalists and advocates of passive solar and sustainable architecture. However, the practice has been around for nearly as long as humans have been constructing their own shelters. Definition[edit] The expression earth-sheltering is a generic term, with the general meaning: building design in which soil plays an integral part.

A building can be described as earth-sheltered if its external envelope is in contact with a thermally significant volume of soil or substrate (where “thermally significant” means making a functional contribution to the thermal effectiveness of the building in question.) There may be said to be three forms of earth-sheltered building: earth-coveredearth-bundedsubterranean Background[edit] Hot Chile and Hot Foods.

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