Turf houses: Iceland's original 'green' buildings Miroslav_1/Getty Images Turf houses: Iceland's original 'green' buildings Known as "torfbæir", these ingeniously designed homes helped settle one of Europe's least-hospitable environments. Built and enlarged over the 18th and 19th Centuries, and used as a priest's house as well as a farmhouse, Glaumbær is Iceland's most extensive and intact group of turf buildings. Luke …
