Dwelling house

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Inventors: Le Cornec, Andre;
Assignee:
Primary Examiner: Ridgill, Jr.; James L.
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Woodward; William R.

A living space with a floor below the natural ground level with a ceiling above the natural ground level is made more suitable for habitation without impairment of the qualities of space in upper stories and of surrounding grounds by providing slanting side walls for the upper part of the basement level, with windows therein. A reconstituted ground level is provided sloping up towards the basement ceiling, interrupted with graded basins in to which the basement windows respectively look.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION I claim: 1.
A dwelling house, a storey of which comprises: a horizontal floor which is below the level of the natural ground which immediately surrounds the house; a horizontal ceiling which is above said ground level; said faces extending from said floor to said ceiling and enclosing therewith at least one dwelling room, one of which side faces has an upper part which is above said ground level and which slopes upwards and inwards; a window provided in said sloped upper part giving light to one said dwelling room and facing into a basin provided in the reconstituted ground above the natural ground, the bottom of the basin being approximately at the level of the natural ground.
2.
House as claimed in claim 1, wherein the reconstituted ground across said basin from and opposite to said upper part is sloped back away from said sloping upper part.
3.
House as claimed in claim 1, wherein an axis of the basin is perpendicular to the sloping upper part.
4.
House as claimed in claim 1, wherein a gutter is provided in the basin above the window.
5.
House as claimed in claim 1, wherein a gutter is provided in the basin below the window.
6.
A dwelling house, a storey of which comprises: a horizontal floor which is below the level of the natural ground which immediately surrounds the house; a horizontal ceiling which is above said ground level; side faces extending from said floor to said ceiling and enclosing therewith at least one dwelling room, one of which side faces has an upper part which is above said ground level and which slopes upwards and inwards, and a window provided in said sloped upper part giving light to one said dwelling room.
7.
House as claimed in claim 6 comprising aother superimposed storey, at least one side of the horizontal plan projection of said other storey being within the perimeter of the storey referred to in claim 6.
8.
House as claimed in claim 6, wherein the bottom of the side faces is in contact with the walls of an excavation in said natural ground

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