Here is a picture of (foggy) today, with an outhouse tower (the one with my favorite view, normally):
The outhouses are built in towers so that there is room for the holding tanks underneath them. Everything is above ground because there's permafrost underneath there- you can't put anything underground. All of the buildings are perched on wooden piles and don't have real foundations.
Permafrost is tough to work around! The pipeline is dug into the permafrost, but the supports all have cooling built into them so that they don't thaw the permafrost by transferring heat and then become destabilized. I think it is so interesting how things have been adapted to work within this constraint!
But it still did take me a while to get used to bathrooms in a tower, I will admit!
