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Bamboo Houses Float on Oil Drums to Protect Inhabitants During a Flood

Every inch of land on the planet has climate factors that present challenges when it comes to building a safe home. H&P Architects hopes to alleviate the displacement of housing due to nature’s course, particularly the extensive loss of homes due to flooding in Southeast Asia. The Vietnamese design firm has created a disaster-resistant housing [...]

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Built by One Family in One Day: $6K Prefab Ab?d Shelters Last Thirty Years

A new model for prefabricated homes, Ab?d® Shelters, is making a difference in South Africa, and designers hope that this solution can be made available to people around the world who suffer from poverty, homelessness, or are displaced by natural disasters. Recently, a community of Ab?d Shelters was constructed on the Del Cramer Campus in [...]

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Sustainable Woodland Living Meets Upscale Urban Atlanta Contemporary Design

How can you live sustainably just miles from a major of a heavily urbanized city like Atlanta and still feel like you have your own weekend getaway retreat? Currently seeking LEED certification, this stunning 4,750 square foot home gives its residents a feeling of remoteness while living only a mile away from shops, offices, and [...]

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First NYC Shipping Container Home Receives Final Certificate of Occupancy

After more than two years in construction and red tape, the shipping container home that David Boyle and his wife, Michele Bertomen, who is an architecture professor at New York Institute of Technology, have been building received its final certificate of occupancy from the New York City Department of Buildings (DOB) on February 28, 2013. [...]

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Blu Home Builds Joshua Tree Vacation Home for Disney Family

Blu® Homes builds award-winning, architecturally designed prefab houses in a 250,000 square foot manufacturing facility near Vallejo, California using a proprietary steel framing and building technology that results in economical, low-maintenance houses that are strong, beautiful, and finished on-site. The Blu | Origin is their most versatile design, allowing for numerous floor plan possibilities. From [...]

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