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Not Your Fathers Mobile Home

The owner purchased the site, formerly a RV campground, with the aim of allowing the landscape return to its natural state. It had been a flood plain meadow in an alpine river valley.

Then, the Rolling Huts were designed to be simple mobile structures able to roll into and set up on the site, yet to provide clearance for nature below each hut.

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Lovely Live-Work in India is Easy on the Climate

This live-work home is designed by and for the DADA Partners is both home and work space. Designed around a courtyard, the house has formal living spaces in front and private areas at the back. The work area is sunk below ground to maximize cooling during the hottest part of the day while the two [...]

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Lyrical Home for a Music Lover Evokes Forest Songs

Literally, a home for a treehugger. The musician client wanted a house that not only became part of the natural landscape but also suggested the flow of music. It is on a steep sloping grade which made it possible to set the main level of the house up into the tree canopy to evoke the feeling of being in a tree house.

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Buffalo House to Weather Rainstorms in Kansas

U of Kansas grad students have just completed their chic Buffalo House in Kansas City, Kansas, designed with a very elegant approach to sustainability. We are seeing more climate conscious design in architecture: In this case; the rain screen. A skin over the house is designed to manage and harvest occasional heavy precipitation, to provide [...]

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Home is White Cube With Grass Roof

This is not as it first appears; a house tucked into a grassy mound, with a grass stairway down into the house. It is actually a freestanding box shaped house, with a private grass stairway to a grass roof in the middle.

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