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More visual system diagrams

See the flows before building the forms.

These CSS-only visuals expand the blueprint page with simple concept diagrams for underground light, water, filtration, capillary growing, sod roofing, and renewable material assemblies.

Integrated underground passage

Light, water, filter, grow bed, and ventilation in one view.

This visual shows how a Fresnel or mirror light path can remain separate from the water-filtration spine, while capillary beds and walking passages stay accessible for maintenance.

Reading the visual

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Daylight enters through a controlled lens, scoop, or mirror path.
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Water moves separately through settling, sand, charcoal, and sampling.
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Capillary beds receive non-potable irrigation only after testing and clear labeling.
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Ventilation and exits remain visible, inspectable, and independent from grow beds.
Visual caution: This is a concept map, not a construction drawing. Underground structures need local code, utility, drainage, air-quality, and structural review.
Sod roof and renewable frame visual

Separate living roof, wall body, and replaceable frame members.

Sod, clay, hempcrete, bamboo, and bamboocrete-style assemblies should be drawn as layers with moisture boundaries, inspection points, and replacement paths.

Material-layer intent

Use the visual to ask where each material begins and stops. Renewable materials are strongest when kept out of their failure conditions.

  • Clay: humidity buffer and finish, not a wet foundation.
  • Sod: living cover with controlled root depth and roof load review.
  • Hempcrete: breathable insulation, not unreviewed structural support.
  • Bamboo: replaceable trellis/rib where moisture and pests can be inspected.
Visual checklist cards

Add these drawings to every rough blueprint review.

Each card represents a view that should exist before an underground greenhouse or natural-material assembly is scaled.

Plan view

Shows paths, exits, filter access, grow beds, utilities, and maintenance clearances from above.

Section view

Shows roof load, berm, wall layers, drainage, airflow, and human clearance through a cutaway.

Water view

Shows source, settling, filtration, storage, overflow, sampling point, and non-potable labels.

Failure view

Shows where smoke, water, glare, mold, pests, blocked exits, or failed pumps go during a problem.

Visual rule

If a safety path cannot be drawn, it is not ready to build.

Add visuals for overflow, emergency exit, air exchange, replacement access, fire shutoff, glare control, charcoal-media replacement, and where each renewable material is protected from moisture and structural overload.

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