[Greenbuilding] Underground vernacular architecture

[natural building]

Perhaps the most impressive, and largest, examples of underground architecture are to be found in the Cappadocia region of central Turkey.

The two underground Cities of Derinkuyu and Kaymakli were / are 5 - 7 storeys deep and capable of supporting literally tens of thousands of people for extended periods of time, complete with stables, wineries, etc..

Steve Satow

www.naturalbuildingsite.net
naturalbuilding at shaw.ca

On 2011-08-07, at 8:57 AM, Joe Killian wrote:

> 
>> Bob's post rung a bell in my memory from the days of the Whole Earth Catalogue but that bell is so far in the distant past that I couldn't remember which WEC or whether it was from one of it's sister publications.
>> 
>  There's always Scotty's Castle & its underground works in Death Valley.
> 
>  Also, there's Bill & Tina Hodge who built an underground house in the Warner Mountains (Modoc County, N.E. Ca.) in the days of the WEC, with concrete shell construction, a la several concrete boat articles in those WECs.  Very nice house indeed, they're still living there and running Eagle Peak Herbals & Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation.    One might get to see some eagles being cared for during a visit, as well as their wonderful house.
> 
> http://www.eaglepeakherbals.com/index.html
> 
>  Joe
> 
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