Rethinking housing in your community!
Blogged by: Laura
Living ‘green’ is going to become essential to humanity within the next 100 years, we've exhausted earth's natural resources, but using recycles clothes, water bottles and city parks aren't enough. Cities are growing and the earth's population with it, soon there won’t be enough space for us all above ground. So I’m making a plan on what components could be in a good ‘green house’. I’m also going to be making a model featuring some of these.
Building a house underground can provide many advantages when taking into consideration:
-Land availability
-Farming
-Livestock
-Temperature
-Space
But what about rain water?
The walls could be made with four different layers, the core layer and insulation will be dried straw, It’s been proven an efficient insulation for housing in recent years, Then there will be a layer if clay on either side to keep the hay packed in. To keep the wamms dry from water in the soil around the house a thin layer of a plastic based sealer paint will be applied to the outer wall.
Now regarding the energy, there are several greener ways of producing power for the underground house, first of all if it’s next to a stream a modern mill can be placed to create hydro power, another option is solar power. If the space above ground isn’t being used for farming solar panels could be a great way to collect energy and conserve space. The Solar panels could even be hidden and set up in a garden.
I'm currently working on a model of a ‘green house’.
Works Cited (including photographs)
"7 Amazing Facts About Underground Houses That Will Blow Your Mind." Granite History. Web. 09 June 2016.
"Underground House." Oxot. Web. 09 June 2016.
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