🌞 Bio-Veda Day 7: Finding True South & Building Homes That Heat Themselves
On Day 7 of the Bio-Veda 2D > 3D BioTecture Draft & Build Class, Alosha Lynov dives deep into one of the most overlooked prepping and homesteading fundamentals:
🔎 Finding True South — the First Step to a Self-Heating Home
Alosha stresses that optimal winter sun exposure begins with correctly locating true south—not magnetic south.
Smartphone compasses? ❌ Not accurate enough.
A real compass + your local magnetic declination? ✔️ Essential.
Aligning within 10° of true south allows your home to collect precious winter sunlight, drastically reducing heating needs.
🧭 Why This Matters for Preppers & Off-Grid Builders
🌤️ Solar Positioning = Free Heat in Cold Climates
This is more than sustainability—it’s a survival advantage.
Lynov notes that at high latitudes (like 60° N), the winter sun rises only 9° above the horizon. Even thin forests can block life-saving heat.
🧱 Thermal Mass + Morning Sun
A slight tilt east can warm your greenhouse or home early in the day, helping thermal mass carry heat through cold nights.
🌲 Build With the Land, Not Against It
Instead of clearing everything, the course teaches how to integrate healthy trees, observe shadows, and understand your land’s microclimates.
“No amount of internet data compares to the real experience of being on the land.” — Alosha Lynov
📱 Tools That Help (But Don’t Replace Real Experience)
Sun Surveyor 🌞
Clinometer 📐
On-site winter shadow tracking 👣
Living temporarily on the land 🏕️
Apps can show sun paths—but only hands-on observation reveals how your land actually behaves.
🎨 Design Details That Follow Nature
Some builders use light-to-dark wall gradients to absorb low winter sun efficiently—an example of design choices inspired directly by natural energy flow.
🏡 The Big Picture: A Home That Breathes, Heats & Cools Naturally
Lynov’s approach blends:
🌿 Psychological awareness
🧠 Intuitive connection to the land
🔥 Old-school fire-side observation
🛠️ Practical solar geometry
The result? A home aligned with Earth’s energy lines—meant to reduce conflict, improve health, and support long-term resilience.
📚 Want the Full Bio-Veda Course?
The class package includes:
🎓 Bio-Veda 2D > 3D BioTecture Draft & Build (full course)
➕ Life-Supporting Off-The-Water-Grid
➕ Hobbit Bunker Vault Course
➕ Air-Crete & Super-Adobe Dome Home