Hogan

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A hogan ( or ; from Navajo hooghan [ho:? an] ) is the main, place living traditional Navajo people. Other traditional structures include summer shelter, underground house, and house sweat. Hogan can be round, conical, multiple sides, or square; with or without internal posts; wood or stone walls and packed with varying amounts of land or leather roofs for summer homes, with doors facing east to welcome the rising of the sun for good wealth and wealth.

Today, while some of the older hogans are now still used as shelter and others are preserved for ceremonial purposes, the new hogans are rarely intended as family dwellings.

Traditional structured hogans are also considered an energy efficient home pioneer. Using solid mud throughout the wood structure, the house remains cool by natural air ventilation and water sprinkled on the ground in it. During the winter, the fireplace keeps the inside warm for long periods of time and until late at night. This concept is called thermal mass.

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Modern app and revival

Construction preferences and hogan use are still very popular among the Navajos, although their use as shelter shrank throughout the 1900s, largely because of the requirements by many Navajos to acquire homes built through government funds and lenders - is negligible. hogan style and sacred space - in preferences for low-cost, low-bid construction of HUD standards.

With government requirements and low-cost lenders, as well as bathrooms and kitchens, the hogan of a person's home is reduced, except for those who can build their own homes. It began officially changed in the late 1990s with various small projects to find a way to bring the hogan back. In 2001, it began to change significantly with a joint venture of partnerships involving Navajo Nation, Northern Arizona University, US Forest Service and other private and public partners - to start producing and building hogans logs from a Navajo-dominated wooden house. factory in Cameron, Arizona, next to Cameron Bab House. Using the excess of small-diameter wood taken from the Northern Arizona forests to reduce the devastating forest fires, and with a series of meetings between parents, medical men, and project leaders - the revival of hogan logs born in Navajo Nations. While preserving the sacred space of the relatively untouched hogan, and also meeting the requirements for modern home facilities, ancient traditions are now once again beginning to flourish. Along with ensuring the survival of cultural heritage, the project has also created new jobs, summer school construction experiences for Navajo teenagers, public buildings, and more.