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:''This article is about the general housing style; for Native American earth lodges, see earth lodge.''
'Earth houses' are an architectural style of housing often intended to have a small ecological footprint. Earth houses are usually lowered into the ground and covered with thin growth. On the inside they consist of a timber-pole construction with square outlines. Modern earth-houses are built with concrete-walls and insulation. Construction-technicians are reportedly working on improvements, as concrete is not an eco-friendly material.
Their entrance can be in the roof. Originally they had no windows, but modern earth-houses can have windows inside the roof which can mean that more natural sunlight enters them than in an average house.
The earth house does not have to be simple in design or low cost as a house of this type went on sale for £2 million in May 2007 This was "The Burrow" in Canterbury, UK, which has five bedrooms[1], and was designed by Patrick Kennedy-Sanigar, who is now trying to build a "village" of this type of housing.
Clay, rammed earth (compacted earth or tierra compactada), wattle and daub, or cob houses are constructions with walls consisting of clay or cob.

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★ dugout (shelter)

★ Teletubbies (children's TV show where the characters live in a grass-covered underground house)

★ yaodong

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★ Mandan Indian Overview

★ modern earth-houses

★ Self-heating eco-house by Veljko Milković

★ earth covered houses