I thought this was a really cool greenhouse
 

I thought I would pass this along. It looked like a really cool design. Maybe some day I will try and build one.


http://www.bensoninstitute.org/Publi...s/Walipini.pdf

Edited to add.

This greenhouse is designed to be built by rural peasants in Bolivia with no modern tools or machinery, and is estimated to cost them under $200.

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Actually, it almost looks half habitable if you were bundled up enough for 45f.

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another pdf file to save :ok:

i've always liked shelter designs that sink the shelter into the ground

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Speaking of Green Houses. What is the best one on the market for under 1500.00?

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It is a great idea,but the brick work would make such a greenhouse very pricey. Even if one knew how to lay bricks, there are just too many squares meters of brickwork to make that a productive greenhouse.

I reckon it would make a better bug out/bunker.............But that is only my opinion.

One may as well dig another 6ft/2meters down,and architecturally support the roof,and then back fill the roof with two meters of prime insulator..

Tell the backhoe driver to change buckets and request an ascending 1 meter trench be dug, in which to exit/enter.

Too easy.

SH

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Actually, there are stairs that go down into it on each side, so its not hard to get in and out of.

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There is no brick work. Its built with rammed earth walls.