Survival Architecture: Building a Retreat that is Defensible, Sustainable and Affordable, by Phil M.
Have you designed and built your own survival retreat yet? If not, read on. Designing and building a survival retreat that can provide protection can be affordable and also provide more than adequate shelter and warmth to not only keep its inhabitants alive, but comfortable. To understand how this is achievable we must first understand what sort of materials are available and how each of them apply to defensibility, sustainability and affordability. Secondly, we must understand how the arrangement of these materials into form, or design, can lend themselves to defensibility, sustainability and affordability. Materials A major problem with conventional …