Igloo：　「ig.loo,ig.lu」igloo,iglu /Origin of a word Inuit
・The house which loads a dome type with ice and makes it in order that the house Eskimo of the Inuit who builds with a snowy block to circle ceiling type may stay at winter．
"Army" dome type explosive warehouse


〔How to build IGLOO〕
Although making IGLOO takes time, the Inuit uses the numbers of century and the effect is proved. However cold it may be in outside, the inside of snow house stood exactly will not become below the freezing point. Although the advantage of IGLOO
may be made also in snow coverage inadequate for making a snow cave, or disadvantageous geographical feature, it requires physical strength and experience more than making a snow cave.

1・The ground is stepped on and hardened, a floor is made and a 2.5m circle is drawn on the ground.
2・A snowy block can be performed if the object in a container is taken out after stuffing, stepping on and hardening snow in the container for horticulture. The block (32cmx48cmx25cm) of the same size is mass-produced by this method.
3・The snowy block is placed on the drawn circle. It is easy to give up what has the form where a block is bad, and it is thrown away.
4・When putting the block after the 2nd step, a center is taken at the joint of the front stage. From the 3rd step, a block is deleted and it leans inside. An entrance is made at this time, stacking a block. (An entrance is turned on the lee)
5・It will become easy to stack if a block is made small since it inclines inside as it progresses upwards. Finally, the ceiling neighborhood is stopped by the block of a cone form. Since the duty of a wedge is achieved, stability increases.
6・It is about a vent near a floor (in height which is not immediately buried in the lying snow) near the top. It makes.
7・The crevice between walls is fill uped with soft snow.
8・The internal surface of a wall is smoothed, and waterdrop is transmitted to the surface of a wall, and it is made to fall so that a drop may not drip.
9・A gate is made at an entrance. A candle stand and accessories are decorated.
IGLOO completion!!

translated by Yukiko.K