 Grand Huts Association is currently working to build the Broome Hut at Second Creek. This will be replacing the old Second Creek A-frame Cabin on Berthoud Pass. GHA is working to perfect the design for a structure that will be comfortable for its human visitors and a good neighbor to its wild environment. The key is to make this hut as environmentally sound as possible. Focus areas are: minimal impact on the environment, modern solar powered technology, and heating/water conservation.
The design challenge is to confine impact to and gain energy from the building site, to utilize resources available on site and be able to endure freezing temperatures and prevailing high winds. All these components add up to a large ticket price that we need to secure funding for. US Forest Service protocol requires all funding for the project to be in place before the final permit can be issued, and then the building process can begin. DONATE NOW to help us reach our goal and begin building.
THE BROOME HUT AT SECOND CREEK BUILDING FEATURES:
• Locally harvested Lodgepole Pine timber frame
interior skeleton skinned with airtight structural foam panels.
• Solar Design: 1,700 sq. ft. oblong, single level floorplan
with the long axis running east/west.
• South facing roof line: 50 ft. long, 10 ft. tall, sloping
at 50 degrees, covered with photo voltaic and hot water panels.
• South wall: windows and solar hot air boxes to generate
building heat, stored masonry mass inside the building.
• Back-up Heat: pellet stoves, fed by fuel made locally
from beetle killed trees.
• Exterior materials: to combat extreme weather
conditions like high winds and sandblasting snowstorms.
Features include: cement-based siding; stone-coated steel
roof; stone wainscoting; flagstone walks, and composite
decking.
• Interior elements: walk-out-crawlspace/basement
utility area with a composting toilet system (perfected by
Equaris Company in the permafrost of Alaska) will keep waste
from day and overnight users from polluting the sensitive basin.
• Rain and snow filled cisterns will supply users. Equaris
has perfected a system that will recycle waste water from hut washing sinks, returning as safe drinking water to hut taps.
THE BROOME HUT FLOOR PLANS & RENDERINGS:
To view the Broome Hut floor plans and building renderings, CLICK HERE. |
