Sod roof

Sod Roof

Once westering pioneers reached their destination, they had to build homes. Those homes reflected the available natural resources of the land. In forested areas, log homes were popular. Some areas in rocky terrain used stones. Some in the Southwest, where clay was plentiful, used adobe. On the Great Plains, sod houses, called “soddies,” were the most common abodes. (There were some wealthier settlers who brought pre-cut timber cabin kits with them offered through the Sears & Roebuck catalog…

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Green roof made with sawn branches

A large log cabin with a sod roof in Astruptunet looks over the fjord of Jølstravatnet in Vestland, Norway

Green roof top garden design ideas come from traditional homes and bring the echo of the past into modern Green building design

We've taken some time off in the last few days to explore the out-of-doors. On Sunday we drove around the Lyngen peninsula to its northernmost point. Not quite the northernmost point in continental Europe, but pretty damn close. It was quite cold and blustery on the other side of the peninsula. The FabLab is built on Pollseidet, a little hummock on the east side of the peninsula. It's warmer than the rest of the area year-round, and has been inhabited since the last Ice Age. Apparently, the…

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Grass roof tops - great for the environment, much cheaper to maintain. Faroe Islands

The Barrowlands

In a forest in southern Småland, in southern Sweden, there is a small earthen cabin. The cabin is partially buried in the ground with its sod roof almost flush with the ground level, which renders the cabin nearly invisible. This type of house is known as “backstuga” in Sweden, which is literally "hill cottage". They are not very common today, but back in the 17th-18th Centuries CE, some of the country’s poorest people lived in them.

Rooftop grazing, Shetland Island, Scotland

The writer’s home, which is partly buried deep in the earth, integrates with nature just a few miles from downtown Austin.

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