Assignment 3 - Abstract outline
Last assignment for the course.
The outline is basically a summary of our research report that was created earlier in the semester. The paper will help outline our applied research topic to people involved in our field of study. The abstract will be used in order to help find a mentor for our project. The mentor has to be from the ARET faculty, and may only have 6 pupils tops.

The abstract will contain information about where i currently am in my research, and what direction I want to take to finish my project. It will also contain the thesis question/statement "is Building an Underground house to the style of a hobbit hole, rather than a standard underground house, feasible?"along with the information i have gathered in answering said question, but you"ll have to wait to read it ;)

The Outline will also include graphics and cited references, then the whole thing will be posted on this blog shortly after the Easter holidays.

An unusual Underground home...

Here's a you tube video that shows an underground house that was originally a US missile silo.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_liNYkZn_M

The clips shows several silo rooms that have been transformed into livable spaces.

Hallway Surface area comparison for walls and ceiling

Just real quick wanted to make a post about surface areas when it comes to hallways!

 

 Here we have a standard hallway (4 foot by 8 foot) and next to it a circular hallway (note: the bottom flat surface is 4 foot wide and from the edges of that flat surface straight up is 8 foot to the arc, very top of the ceiling is a little higher than 8 foot)

Assuming the lengths of each hallway are the same , lets say 5 feet, the total surface area for the standard hallway is:

8ft x 5ft = 40sq ft ( x 2 for the other wall) = 80sq ft

4ft x 5ft = 20sq ft

equaling 100sq ft

For the round hallway:

287.4272 inches / 12 = 23.9523ft 

23.9523ft x 5ft = 119.7613sq ft

Extra surface area just under 20%

A Section of Exterior wall from Earth-Sheltered Houses by Rob Roy or underground houses.

Breaking Down the Thesis question.

Instead of trying to tackle this question head on, breaking it down into more manageable pieces may prove to provide a superior understanding to the answer of this question.