1. How does your model represent an actual pit house? It has the rock foundation, the frame, and the hide wall.
2. What materials did you use to represent the parts of the house? Small stone, small sticks, and hide, and hot glue to keep the sticks together
3. How are these materials different than the ones used in the full sized house? The larger pit house used large stones, branches, and elk hide, it used rope to keep the branches together.
4. What would happen to your construction if you used materials from the model? Glue is to heavy some of the materials are to heavy it will collapse
5. What type of problem does the pit house solve? It is easy to build, dug into the earth for warmth during the winter and the materials needed to build it are common
6. How effective do you think it was a solution? Not very well
7. How would people have done about figuring out how to build the pit house and what materials to use? I think they would have tested various designs and learned from failures to make it better.
8. Energy consumptions and climate change a major concern today. How could pit house technology be used to build more sustainable living spaces? How would you modify the design to make it more modern? pit houses are dug into the earth for warmth during the winter, to make it more modern I would use a concrete foundation, metal beams for the structure and the normal two layers of a modern house inside and out with insulation.
