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A different way to build a house #52 – The flat pack house
If you take a look at the following article, it discusses a number of innovative designs in the realm of flat-pack furniture: More Creative Furniture for Cramped Urban Living: 20 Pieces of Ingenious...
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A different way to build a house #53 – inexpensive housing for the developing...
We may never see this type of housing in the developed world, but for the developing world this new type of housing would be a huge improvement over shacks of rusting metal and cardboard: The video...
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A different way to build a house #54 – Log homes
In the United States, the “log cabin” is a nostalgic favorite. The early settlers and pioneers often built log cabins, and Abraham Lincoln was raised in one. People still build them today. In the...
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Makes you think – Homeless people become visible
If you have a job, there seem to be three ways to look at today’s economy in the United States. One way is to ignore the millions of people who have become unemployed recently. Another way is to mock...
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World Record #150 – The world’s most expensive house, approaching $1 billion,...
Imagine a house that is 27 stories tall. And six of those stories are for the parking garage for 160 cars. Imagine a house that covers 37,000 square meters (nearly 400,000 square feet)(as big as 160...
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The features of smart houses in 2010
Home construction is one of those things that really has not changed a whole lot for hundreds of years. For example, if you look at the houses in Colonial Williamsburg, they have pitched roofs with...
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A Different Way To Build a House #62 – Cross Laminated Timber (CLT) construction
Cross Laminated Timber panels (also known as CLT and X-LAM) are a relatively new building material. They have been used to build everything from houses to multi-story apartment buildings: The building...
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A Different Way To Build a House #63 – An 800 square foot 2-bedroom apartment...
Back in September, a challenge was issued on Treehugger’s web site to create a 420 square foot living space that can do everything a space twice that big would normally do: Help Design, Build an...
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