English: this pictures shows a crossection of a Walipini-Greenhouse. These Greenhouses are lowered into the ground and offer passive cooling and heating just by use of Solar irradiation and storage underground.

This particular version has an optimized system of air-canals and heat-exchangers for extra cooling in summer and extra heating in Winter. It also features an additional heat source in consideration of users most common demands for outdoor living. The picture is part of a Geothermal model showing Summer, Winter, day and night. The full model can be downloaded Geothermal model Walipini-Greenhouse from TS Prototype-Creation Wiesbaden, Germany

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This project was inspired by the "Greenhouse in the snow", the Mandan Earth house in Ittlingen, Germany and draws from the technology of "Concrete activation" and geothermal heat storage developed for the "Forest-City" project in 2008