Friday, August 1, 2014

Iglu White House

Iglu - etymology

Coming from the Inuit language, a Native American language family native language characterized eskimo-Melua, who speaks in Greenland, Canada, Alaska and Siberia, igloo designates a house, a house located in any habitat with snow. It is also translated as snowhouse or snow house, even if it means house igloo traditionally made ​​of any material.
Architecture

Iglu, structure, Inuit architecture is characterized as a building block of snow, arranged in the shape of a dome, tunnel entry form. When properly constructed inside an igloo temperature can be kept between -7 ° C and 16 ° C, without a source of heat than the body, even if outside temperature reaches -45 ° C. In such a construction can fit 15-20 people.

In these rooms do not live all year round, but during the hunt.

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