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The thing is, houses which are half hidden by hillsides have been built for hundreds of years with basic materials in the alps, so i'd have thought there is a r
by cesaref 6y ago
The thing is, houses which are half hidden by hillsides have been built for hundreds of years with basic materials in the alps, so i'd have thought there is a rich seam of information about what works, and how to tackle various problems (my parent's house is like this, with a whole floor difference in level between the back and front of the house and this doesn't have damp problems).
- jaclaz 6y agoYep, the "right" way dates back to Romans: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17933056 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17933056
- dalbasal 6y agoA rich seam perhaps, but that needs to be "mined" and what you get is raw material.... uhm analogy still working right? There's a big difference between "someone somewhere has done this and documented it" and "these exact builders have built 100s of these in my area." The gap between principle and practice. Software design and engineering is very influential these days, obviously on HN. We need to remember that bits have all sorts of magic to them. One magic is refactoring, bug fixing and malleability generally. With a building, any "bug" in the initial build is usually there forever.
- marcinzm 6y agoClimate matters as does location. Plus it was built in the 80s, I doubt any contractor in 80's Arkansas had any idea how to figure out about houses in the Alps even if they cared to.
- mywittyname 6y agoA hole in the side of a mountain is pretty different from a hole in the middle of Oklahoma.