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6.25.Hungary-3-detail-g Poster
by Charlie Szoradi
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6.25.Hungary-3-detail-g poster by Charlie Szoradi. Our posters are produced on acid-free papers using archival inks to guarantee that they last a lifetime without fading or loss of color. All posters include a 1" white border around the image to allow for future framing and matting, if desired.
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Hungary 3: Detail (g) Highlights Relevant to Sustainable Design: ... more
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Hungary 3: Detail (g) Highlights Relevant to Sustainable Design:
Geothermal applications have multiple advantages.
Along the bottom of the sketchbook, you will see what appear to be small houses. They are actually pince, pronounced “pin-sir,” or wine storage houses. The houses are only the front of much larger structures and storage processes. Each one is merely a door with one room for tasting, and then the wine cellar extends back into the hillside, sometimes as far as a hundred feet. By extending into the hill, the tunnellike cellars take advantage of the cool and constant ground temperature below the freezing point of the frost line. The underground space is always about fifty to fifty-five degrees Fahrenheit, depending on the latitude, as long as it is at least three and a half to five feet below the ground surface. Indigenous people around the world have taken advantage of this free and constant temperature well before air-conditioning and heating. The passive...
About Charlie Szoradi
I am pleased to share these graphics as well as the drawings from my travels around the world over the past three decades. The ink sketches are all from field observations drawn on fold-out sketch books, most of which are about seven feet long. Given that there are thousands of images in the numerous drawing books, I hope that you enjoy the work that I have included here from Asia, Eastern Europe, North America, Central America, and many other places. In many cases, the drawings document design and innovation that are not landmarks. Overall, I enjoy seeing and celebrating the extraordinary in the ordinary. About the illustrator and author: Charlie Szoradi is an architect, inventor, and sustainability professional. He is passionate...
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