Grain Bin Renovation. By Don and Gare We are collaborating to convert a 3, 000 bushel grain bin into two one-room apartments.
We chose to use the grain bin because it already has walls, a roof, and a concrete floor, and we only have three months before winter. Underground Living: Buried Secrets of a Stone Desert Home. There are people living underground everywhere from the Swiss Alps to Las Vegas and the Caves of Cappadocia to the Wild West of America, but few strike such a stunning balance between their natural-landscape surroundings and artificial-dwelling interiors as this semi-subterranean stone home camouflaged, buried and half-hidden in th arid desert climate of rural Greece.
The overall shape of this long rectangular structure responds to green needs (controlled natural light, heat and cooling cross-winds) as well as the slopes of two adjacent hillsides – a simple flat, closed and box-like plan that remains unassuming in the relatively bare surroundings. The house emerges only in the center, and even then looks as much like a half-buried ruin as a contemporary underground home. Healthy Handle: Self-Sanitizing UV Door Knob Kills Germs. Something as simple as the flu can still kill, and washing one’s hands regularly only goes so far.
Ultraviolet light can help, but how to make it count is the question. The answer: turn something everyone touches into a place to stop rather than spread common contact-driven communicable diseases. Building a Roundhouse with woodhenge and cobwood