架构师提供的文本描述。DesignBuildBLUFF是一个非营利性组织，在纳瓦霍国家建造环境可持续的房屋。他们的工作将建筑学一年级的研究生介绍给犹他州东南部沙漠的文化和历史，他们在那里设计，并最终为纳瓦霍族建造了一个家。DesignBuildBLUFF试图让其成员-学生、志愿者和工作人员-认识到建筑能够提供无与伦比的个人丰富和生活质量。我们的项目包括打捞和发现的材料，现代技术，和传统的建筑方法。老练的双手，投入的头脑，开放的心灵，与足智多谋和聪明才智相一致，为一些最后期待的人创造了一个家。

Text description provided by the architects. DesignBuildBLUFF is a non-profit organization that builds environmentally sustainable homes in the Navajo Nation. Their work introduces first-year graduate students in architecture to the culture and history of Utah’s desert southeast, where they design, and ultimately build a home for a Navajo Family. DesignBuildBLUFF seeks to engage its constituents--students, volunteers, staff, in the realization that architecture can provide unparalleled personal enrichment and quality of life. Our projects incorporate salvaged and found materials, modern technologies, and traditional building methods. Calloused hands, engaged minds, and open hearts align with resourcefulness and ingenuity to create a home for some of the last people to expect it.

在犹他州南部的纳瓦霍保留地，苏西怀特霍斯和她的四个孩子住在霍根，一个传统的美国印第安风格的家。这位44岁的妇女设法带着她的孩子逃离了一个酗酒的丈夫，但找不到工作，她在这座15英尺宽的圆顶小屋里做饭和打扫卫生。她挤在那里，里面有床、小炉子和冰箱。然而，由于犹他州大学建筑与规划学院的18名研究生的努力，怀特霍斯将为她和她的四个孩子找到一个家。

On the Navajo Reservation in southern Utah, Suzie Whitehorse lives with her four children in a Hogan, a traditional American Indian-style home. The 44-year-old woman managed to escape with her children from an alcoholic husband but can’t find a job and does all her cooking and cleaning in the 15-foot wide dome-shaped hut. She is cramped in there with beds, a small stove and refrigerator. However, thanks to the work of 18 graduate students from the University of Utah’s College of Architecture and Planning, Whitehorse will be getting a home for herself and her four children.

“尺寸适中”，一栋面积不足1000平方英尺的住宅。纳瓦霍保护区最可持续的建筑资源是地球。因此，建造一个“火箭炉子”的想法，即燃烧火柴大小的木块，在55加仑的桶上提供一个加热的“炉子”，与20英尺高的烟道相一致，这个烟道可以加热一个“圆芯”长凳，而这个长凳反过来又能加热家庭。此外，这一想法已经被证明是整个家庭的主要热源，几乎没有必要使用地板辐射供暖，这本身就是从垂直方向的太阳能热水板开始的，这些太阳能热水板提供了一个窝藏热水蓄水池的棚屋的南墙。

“Right sized”, a home less than 1,000 square feet. The most sustainable building resource on the Navajo Reservation is earth. Hence, the idea to build a “rocket stove”, which burns kindling size pieces of wood, provides a heating “stove’ atop a 55 gallon barrel in line with the 20 feet of flue which heats a “cob” bench, which in turn thermally heats the home. Moreover, the idea has proven to be the primary heating source for the entire home, nearly rendering unnecessary the in-floor radiant heating, which itself begins with vertically-oriented solar hot water panels that provide the south wall of a shed harboring the hot water reservoirs.

因此，在寒冷的沙漠严冬，仅仅点燃木屑的大小就能为五口之家提供舒适。足够的“棒子”-粘土、沙子、稻草和水-完全是由心和手(和脚，用手和铲子收集到的黏土块)由一个三人小组生产的，他们用手工制作的压缩土砖盖住了所有手工制作的砖块(在现场，学生焊接)组件-燃烧缸，清洁室，盖子和绝缘手柄，上述滚筒和内缸导致水平缠绕烟道.明显的低科技，准本土和明显的可扩展性。这里没有暖通空调系统-没有任何机械系统，只有太阳和一点木头，还有微风。

So, mere kindling the size of wood shims provide the family of five comfort during the brutally cold high desert winters. Enough “cob” -- clay, sand, straw and water -- was produced purely by heart and hand (and feet, boot-crushing tenacious clumps of hand-and-shovel harvested clumps of clay) by a three-man team to cover the hand-made compressed earth bricks built up to correctly position all of the hand-made (on-site, student-welded) components -- combustion cylinder, clean-out chambers, lids and insulated handles, the aforementioned drum and interior cylinder leading to the horizontally winding flue. Decidedly low-tech, quasi-vernacular and eminently scalable. There is no HVAC system -- really no mechanical system whatsoever, just the sun and a little bit of wood, and the breeze.

压倒一切的美学意图是由当地的柱谷仓激发的。此外，不小心，纳瓦霍保留地天生的文化霍根还有第二幅图解，即单一的预告片，它的简单性和对东/西拉长矩形的适应性，它提供了一个较长的南面，用于玻璃化和低科技的、乡土的被动太阳方向。这座高楼让无处不在的“吹沙”从下面经过，而不是迅速地堆积在一起。有趣的是，在家中阴凉的阴凉处流动的空气，令后甲板焕然一新，这是一种传统的“阴凉结构”的抽象版本，随着季节从高沙漠、残酷的寒冷转变为沙漠的酷热，土著人民就会转向这种结构。

The overriding aesthetic intent was inspired by the vernacular pole barn. Additionally, accidentally, there exists a second iconography to the innately cultural hogan on the Navajo Reservation, namely the single-wide trailer, much more architecturally provoking in it’s simplicity and adaptability to the east/west elongated rectangle which provides a longer south-facing aspect for glazing and low-tech, vernacular passive solar orientation. The raised house allows the ubiquitous ‘blow-sand’ to pass beneath it, rather than quickly pile up alongside. Interestingly, the air that flows in the shade beneath the home cools, and it pleasantly refreshes the back deck, an abstracted version of the traditional “shade structure” to which the indigenous peoples move as the seasons switch from high desert brutally cold to high desert brutally hot.

在离地面仅四英尺的地方，它也鼓励了超乎寻常的自然通风。南方的曝光量是经过计算的，以达到最佳的被动太阳能加热，将太阳的触角暴露在上面提到的地板辐射加热的混凝土热团中。怀特霍斯家的外部被回收的电线杆抬高，被回收的铝片覆盖，这些铝片被回收、丢弃和重新设计的船运托盘所强调。天然灰泥完全覆盖了内部，通过自然混合不同沉积物的背裂，手铲5加仑的黏土，改变了颜色。巨大的单棚屋顶是排水沟，向北侧的中心倾斜，向下喷入一个2000加仑的地下蓄水池。

Only four feet off the ground it also encourages an inordinately greater amount of natural ventilation. The southern exposure is calculatedly glazed for optimum passive solar heating, exposing the sun’s reach to the above-mentioned in-floor radiantly heated concrete thermal mass. The exterior of the Whitehorse home is raised by recycled telephone poles, clad by recycled sheets of aluminum accented by recycled, discarded and aesthetically reconstituted shipping pallets. Natural plaster completely covers the interior, altering color by naturally mixing different deposits of back-breaking, hand-shoveled 5 gallon buckets of clay. The large singly shed roof is guttered, which slope toward the center on the north side and downspout into a 2,000 gallon buried cistern.