Introduction

Snow is excellent material for building different types of constructions. It is usually fairly inexpensive compared with e.g. concrete or other modern building materials. But in some areas snow is still "luxury" and it might be impossible to get enough snow to build a snow castle. Also lack of good snow building guide has prevented building of snow constructions to spread all over the world. Fortunately Eero Väänänen has noticed this serious disadvantage and published a great book called Architecture of snow castles and other snow construktion, which has been great inspiration and source of information for these pages.

Building of snow construction has to plan, like construction in general, thoroughly. There is no sense in building e.g. snow castle to a place, which isn't favorable for it. When choosing a building site it's important pay attention to what kind of building suites into the terrain. It's obvious that snow church suites in completely different terrain than traditional snow castle.