Posts Tagged ‘ Architecture ’

“Jean Prouve was a metal worker and designer that acquired notoriety for his collaboration with his famous cousin Charles Edouard Jeanneret (who assumed the pseudonym Le Corbusier). This weeks video presented by Wallpaper Magazine does a great job showing Jean Prouve’s early exploration into PreFab with the Ferembal House. The building was originally designed...
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From the Architect “It took us a year to engineer but only seven days to build the structure, thanks to a total prefabrication of the different elements and a perfectly coordinated rhythm of assembly. All of our effort oriented to develop the technique that would allow to create a very specific space”….<More>
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“Eco Mods, a manufacturing company based in Mid Wales, has developed the “House Pod” – a pre-built home that can be put together in five days for as little as £20,000…..The basic concept is very similar to a timber-frame house commonly seen on any building site, but instead of being built on site with...
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“Low-E windows, solar augmentation, high-efficiency appliances and superior insulation. The solar panelson the roof don’t supply all the home’s needs, but they do cut electricity consumption in half. There’s also a tankless water heater and a cistern that collects rainwater from the roof for use in gardening, car washing or other outdoor uses. Floors...
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“Most of the energy system of this modern modular house is located at the end of the garden, called an “eco-hub”. Rather than relying on bolting on a mass of solar panels or wind turbines to the house itself, which depending on the orientation of the house may not be most efficiently positioned, the...
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“A Kodiak Steel Homes kit offers several advantages over more typical approaches to homebuilding. Its superior materials and fully-engineered design make it more durable, economical, and environmentally responsible”…
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“Locating the house on a remote island posed another set of constraints. Using traditional construction processes would have been prohibitively expensive; the majority of costs would have been applied toward transporting building materials to the remote island. Instead, we worked with the contractor to devise a prefabrication and construction process that maximized the use...
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To those who harbor dreams of hitting the open road or shacking up in a tiny modernist prefab cabin in the wilderness: this roundup is for you. Tiny homes, trailers, and prefabs are hot right now
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“# 6 Created for a owner who was paralyzed in a car accident, this home inverts the notion of “accessible” architecture by making the center of the house into a platform that moves up and down. Each floor of the house is only complete when the elevator/platform room is present. So the wheelchair-bound resident...
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“Like a traditional pool, the natural pool is separated from the ground by manmade materials such as rubber or reinforced polyethylene. But unlike a traditional pool, the water cleaning process uses a regeneration zone of aquatic plants and stones instead of harsh chemicals like chlorine. Of course, no one wants a green pool in...
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