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Content:

• Underground house

• Tree house

• Apartment

• Terraced House

• Picture

• Group’s opinion

UNDERGROUND HOUSE

• Underground house or earth-sheltered dwellings as some call them lie mostly beneath the Earth's surface. These houses are in expensive to heat and cool since the surrounding soil acts as natural insulation. Those who design underground homes have come up with several methods for regulating the temperature.

• Underground buildings (at least some) depend entirely upon the insulation provided by the soil surrounding walls and floors. Others, however, have tubes channeled through them to bring in fresh air. Still others use a heat pump to regulate temperatures.

• Most underground dwellings are made of concrete and one can expect to pay 10-percent more for construction of these earth-sheltered structures than a typical home. Enthusiasts say, though, that at least 10-percent or more is saved from lower maintenance and energy costs. Subsurface homes are not suitable, though for northern, permafrost regions or for most areas on flood plains. Some other advantages of building underground are lower insurance premiums, natural sound insulation, less susceptibility to fire, high winds, hailstorms and tornadoes to name a few. Privacy is another issue stated by underground dwelling enthusiasts, which lured them to build below the surface.

TREE HOUSE

• Tree houses can be built with a wide range of material. Wood is commonly used for structural parts and cladding due to its strength, light weight and low cost. Steel is used for brackets, cables and bolts, including specialized tree bolts capable of supporting up to 6,000 pounds (2,700 kg). Builders of tree houses sometimes use recycled materials or parts, such as reclaimed window frames, doors and used lumber. Fabrics can be used to produce non-rigid temporary structures that are more like tree tents than tree house. Since the mid-1990s, recreational tree houses have enjoyed a rise in popularity in countries such as the united States and parts of Europe. This has been due to increased disposable income, better technology for builders, research into safe building practices and an increased interest in environmental issues, particularly sustainable living.

• Increased popularity has, in turn, given rise to demand for businesses covering all building and design work for clients. There are over 30 businesses in Europe and the USA .

• Specializing in the construction of tree houses of various degrees of permanence and sophistication, from children's play structures to fully functioning homes.

APARTMENT

• By 1900, more than 75 percent of urban Americans were living in apartments. Apartments served as a second residence for many wealthy Americans and offered a convenient, respectable, and safe residence near work for urban singles and middle-class families. San Francisco's Tenderloin district, then a middle-class neighborhood with residential hotels and apartment houses, was popularly known as "the apartment house district."

TERRACED HOUSE

• In architecture and city planning, a terraced house, terrace, row house, linked house or townhouse (though the last term can also refer to patio houses) is a style of medium-density housing that originated in Europe in the 16th century, where a row of identical or mirror-image houses share side walls. The Place des Vosges in Paris (1605–1612) is one of the early examples of the style. The first and last of these houses is called an end terrace, and is often larger than the houses in the middle.

• Terrace housing can be found throughout the world, though it is in abundance in Europe, and extensive examples can be found in North America and Oceania. Sometimes associated with the working class, historical and reproduction terraces have increasingly become part of the process of gentrification in certain inner-city areas.

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