Male and Female Hogans of the Diné

Diné (meaning "The People", also called Navajo or Navaho) Culture, is located in the Four Corners Region, the desert Southwest, United States. The people are of Athabascan cultural origin, who migrated from western Canada c.1600 C.E. The hunter-gatherer traditional Diné do not live in villages, instead live in separate traditional homes called hogans, with typical spacing of a kilometer (mile) or more, although hogans of clan families may form a hometead with neighborhood proximity. Water is typically hauled to the homestead from nearby springs and wells. Navajos, culturally distinct from Southwest Puebloan and Apache tribes, maintain their religion and original Athabascan language. The hogan is the focus of the Diné spiritual tradition, acting as a kind of psycho-cosmogram, where ceremonial prayers and dances are performed. The plan layout for the hogan can be round or polygonal, but cannot be a rectangular or square.
(See also Hazarashen - Armenian Crib Dome, p. )

Elevation varies from 1200 - 3000 meters (4000 - 10000 feet) above sea level.

Materials: walls can be of wood logs, adobe, or stone; roof is typically a "cribbed" wood log dome with earth/clay covering; floors are often earthen.

Data for CG model:
1 Jett, Stephen C. and Sencer, Virginia E., 1981, NAVAJO ARCHITECTURE: FORMS, HISTORY, DISTRIBUTIONS, University of Arizona Press.
2. https://www.dennisrhollowayarchitect.com/ColoradoSolarHogan.html