out for a walk in an urban Hill Village with portals for the un2 series and related wall technology.
The un3 in detail
Construction in five stages.
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an urban Hill Village in cross-section showing habitat integration.
a patent (pdf - 1.04 MB)
special bags in cradle
a structural shell
the crab at work
cross-section of a dwelling
birds-eye view of an urban Hill Village
an urban Hill Village in section
a Hill-Village in a lake
| 3. A Slide Show | ||||
Title: A Slide Show of Earth-Integrated Human Habitats Presenter: Frank Lee Moreland, Fort Worth, Texas Date: Presented May 2006 The Texas Solar Energy Society & Sustainability Coalition's meeting in May, 2006 was the occasion of this slide show. I could not find the credits due some of the images, my apologies. |
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I hope you enjoy the show. With best wishes, Sincerely, Frank L.Moreland |
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| 1. Water Lilly, Fort Worth, greatly underexposed by accident on a very bright day (Kodachrome, 35mm), 1959 | 2. China, two storey courtyards with trees and carved stairs ("L" shapes) with sculptured barriers and trees at each. Continuous use in excess of 1,000 years. | 3. China? one storey. Rooms under Earth surfaces. | ||
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| 4. Turkey, tough access, but secure | 5. Turkey | 6. Taos Pueblo, New Mexaco; oldest continuously inhabitated structure on the North American Continent, 600 years plus; "of-the-Earth", but not "in-the-Earth" | ||
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| 7. SODDIE, Nebraska, 1800's | 8. Spain (contemporary), see doors, sunken courtyards | 9. Water Lilly | ||
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| 10. Canyon De Chelly Motel, Arizona, Earth-Covered rooms | 11. Office building, Oakland, California, very slightly Earth-Integrated | 12. Terraset Elementary School, Reston, Virginia, Douglas Carter, Architect; almost totally Earth-Integrated, a Type III (Earth on top and sides) | ||
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| 13. Bookstore & Admissions Bldg., University of Minnesota, David Bennett, Architect; two storey building under all the grey paving | 14. Bookstore & Admissions Bldg., University of Minnesota, interior | 15. Pusey Library, Harvard, Massachusetts, Hugh Stubbins, Architect; a three storey, Rare Books Library two feet below the grass and sidewalks, handrails at sunken courtyard | ||
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| 16. Fort Worth Library, Texas, Merve Croston, Architect; entrance with stairs & elevators, reading areas | 17. Fort Worth Library, Texas, two city blocks and a street becoming a basement building | 18. Fort Worth Library, Texas, cross section | ||
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| 19. Fort Worth Library, Texas, cost breakdown, U.S. Supreme Court said non-property owners could obligate property owners. Built this way because it was cheapest of six alternatives considered. Six years between bond election and court decision, 1978 | 20. Ethicon, San Angelo, Texas, large two storey manufacturing building under four feet of earth, paving, and cars. 100% inclosure. Designed to take nearby atomic blast | 21. Monsanto Dining Room with three feet of Earth-Cover | ||
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| 22. Office building, Phoenix, Arizona, the top floor of a four storey office building | 23. Office building, Phoenix, Arizona, the bottom floor with courtyards to the sky | 24. Community Center, Paris, France, community parks on top of a three storey underground community center and parking garage, three city blocks by nine +/- (large), tied to subways on two sides | ||
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| 25. European Investment Bank, Luxembourg, 2005, a very secure habitat. Dr. B. Centola and Professor M. Pozzoli, Architects, Italy | 26. Water Lilly | 27. Moreland #1 | ||
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| 28. Moreland #1 | 29. Moreland #1 | 30. Moreland #1 | ||
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| 31. Moreland #1 | 32. Moreland #2 | 33. Moreland #2 | ||
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| 34. Moreland #2, Moreland decides to do the concrete work in the future and leave teaching | 35. Moreland #3, very tall house (see doors), concrete shell by Moreland, as are all of the following | 36. Moreland #4, the geology exposed, first VA insured Earth-Covered house, on market 14 consecutive days when sold 19 years later for the asking price, (they retired to New Mexico) | ||
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| 37. Moreland #4, a view of 30 miles from same "underground" house | 38. Moreland #5, security and comfort on 1000 acres in a very isolated area for a couple in their 70's | 39. Moreland #6, shell just then completed, no landscape work done. Main house 3500 s.f., guest house 1100 s.f., 3 car garage with future kitchen and bath, cabana and pool, sunken entrance courtyard | ||
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| 40. Moreland #6, an Earth-Integrated type III (Earth-Covered) and a type I (Earth-Bermed) | 41. Moreland #6, concrete construction by Moreland firm | 42. Moreland #6 | ||
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| 43. Moreland #6 | 44. Moreland #6 | 45. Moreland #6, front of house from pool, porch is 135 feet long with cabana & hot tub on the left | ||
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| 46. Moreland #6, interior, zig zag display with teak top, tile floor throughout (installed first with wall plates bolted down for easy relocation without flooring issues) | 47. Moreland #6, the entry area, what guests first see | 48. Moreland #7, front, Earth-Covered porch 95 ft long | ||
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| 49. Moreland #7, front, floor plan | 50. Moreland #7, front, interior, natural light only | 51. BAJA Condos, Legoretta, Architect, Mexico; a cluster of type III dwellings | ||
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| 52. Hill Village, Birdseye #1 | 53. Hill Village, Birdseye #2 | 54. Hill Village, section | ||
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| 55. Hill Village, a house in plan, sections and elevation | 56. Earth-Integrated Dwelling Type III, cross section | 57. My house, soon | ||
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| 58. Water Lily | 59. Oakland Fire, California, concrete garages, most with Earth on top, not damaged, all else lost, all trees dead | 60. Oakland Fire, stairway to nowhere, top is a flagstone terrace, wood doors undamaged | ||
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| 61. Oakland Fire, up close, all concrete fine, houses all gone, dark rectangle in distance is a fireplace | 62. Oakland Fire, Birdseye, where have all the houses gone? House in rear with no damage because of masonry with stucco, steel casement windows, tile roof and metal trim | 63. Concrete House, Fort Worth, 1930+, Note: concrete is in the Roman Coliseum; Thomas Edison built a subdivision of all concrete houses near Stewartville, New Jersey, still in use 1960+/-; in 2006 it was proved that the Egyptian pyramids are made of a primative form of concrete, not cut stone. | ||
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| 67. Moreland with Sphere No. 3 | ||||
| 4. ORBS,™ a sculpture you can make | ||||
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This object was made using a beach ball and water-filled balloons and reinforced plaster of paris. Here's how: 1. Take an 18" inflatible beach ball, cut off the nozzle, and then cut and fold the circle of plastic around the nozzle hole over a wire circle (heavy wire, circle about 5" in diameter) tape the balloon to hold the wire circle. 2. Fill various sizes of small balloons with water and work them into the beach ball. 3. Fill the beach ball with fluid plaster of paris reinforced with lots of 1" +/- long fibers cut from nylon paint brushes. Just mix in to plaster of paris and pour into balloon and "massage" beach ball to insure balloons are well covered. 4. allow to cure about a week. 5. remove beach ball and balloons, place OBS in a large plastic trash bag and continue curing a week or so. 6. remove ORBS and sand away the excess plaster of paris 'til you like what you have. 7. could add colors to plaster of paris, or stain the finished ORBS. Could apply a sealer, tho I never have. Have fun, Best Wishes Frank L. Moreland |
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| 5. For a free download of the color drawing of the heavily earth-covered dwelling, click here. | ||||