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Igloo In The Canadian Arctic

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Climate The Canadian Arctic is one of the extremely coldest climates known on Earth with the temperature of -28°C and -70°C during winter and in summer around 12°C which makes it very hard to survive unless you have appropriate shelter to keep you warm in freezing cold temperature. They had to discover a natural way of keeping them warm under shelter, For this particular reason, people who lived in that environment were forced to accommodate themselves by building with the material they had available and survive by using the techniques of passive engineering. Structure Design and Purpose People have always been fascinated by this traditional vernacular building called Igloo which is commonly found in Canada Arctic. The inventors of this vernacular
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